Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

and each travels on its own path around the sun. But of these planets, which is nearest to the sun? Mercury is a strange little world. There are some craters on its surface that never see sunlight.

Chennai: If you spotted six planets in a row in Jan, try your luck again at this month-end as Mercury will also be visible.

Dwarf planet Pluto, on the other hand, has a fairly squashed orbit. Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, has the most eccentric orbit, with the difference between the distance at perihelion and ...

The discovery of a planet that is just 20 light-years away has been said to be the closest Earth analogue that scientists ...

The eight major planets of our Solar System orbit the Sun in the same flat plane, and all at different speeds. Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, completes an orbit – a year for the planet ...

That means the Sun and the "Red Planet" are directly opposite from each other with Earth in the middle. According to NASA, this is around the time when the planet is closest to Earth, making it ...

It is not often that all the planets in the Solar System other than ours are lined up across the night sky for us to see.

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...