As everyone knows, the apparent motion of the planets is caused by the motion of the planet about the sun combined with that of the earth. The relative motion of Mars, for instance, may be ...

This apparent motion of the planet, however, is not uniform, but is affected by the periodic shifting of our point of view, the earth, so that Saturn is not always easily found and distinguished ...

“There’s no scientific evidence that any planet’s apparent retrograde motion affects you at all,” Howells writes. Meanwhile, the Farmer’s Almanac suggests that while Mercury is in ...

Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant planets, suggests a new study.

Then, an inner planet (Mercury) moves faster than an outer planet (like Earth), resulting in "apparent retrograde motion" — apparent because Mercury, speeding around our star at over 100,000 mph ...