Mercury retrograde: Several planets appear to 'step back,' and here's what that means. The planets that fall inside Earth's orbit around the Sun – Mercury and Venus – mostly appear to be ...

When the planet nearest to the sun is retrograde, it appears to move “backwards” (east to west rather than west to east) across the sky. This apparent reversal in Mercury’s orbit is actually ...

The first Mercury retrograde of 2025 is here ... During retrogrades, planets appear to move backwards in their orbit. In reality, the effect is caused by Earth overtaking a slower-moving planet ...