Eight Planets News Today

Humans have been looking to the sky to make sense of the world around us for thousands of years. Ancient cave paintings seem to show humans began using the position of the stars to keep track of time as early as 40,000 years ago. Archaeological evidence also indicates astronomy was one of the first natural sciences developed by many ancient civilizations.

For most of human history, we could only see six planets. With Uranus and Neptune, the solar system grew to include eight planets. However, the story wasn’t over.