"We reference the planets as symbols to better understand our lives," PEOPLE's resident astrologer Kyle Thomas says Skyler Caruso is a Writer and Reporter of PEOPLE Digital Entertainment. She joined ...

Shortly after the announcement of the TRAPPIST-1 system, NASA crowdsourced its Twitter followers for possible planet names. The actual process of naming new planets, however, is a bit more involved.

While Mercury in retrograde gets a whole lot of attention, it isn't the only planet that does this. In fact, all of the planets do, and many of us were born with retrograde planets — like Jupiter, ...

You may have heard the saying, "when the stars align," once or twice in your life, but did you know that the planets aligning ...

A stationary planet is a planet that is just about to turn retrograde or direct, but not yet moving and at a temporary standstill. Stationary planets in the birth chart can be very powerful and ...

Artist's impression of the newly named exoplanet Isagel (right) that orbits the star Aniara (HD 102956) in the Big Dipper 399 light years from Earth. The planet is about as massive as Jupiter and ...

If you step back in time, thousands of years ago, people knew about the brightest planets pretty much everywhere. These are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. And pretty much every culture knew ...

Astronomers on Tuesday (Dec. 20) announced the discovery of the first two Earth-size alien planets — a historic find for sure, but the newfound worlds didn't exactly receive historic names. All of ...