Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the spacecraft captured the imagery. Credit: Space.com | footage & orbit animation cou ...

Multiple planets will appear to be aligned in the night sky in a parade of planets throughout February, astronomers say, an ...

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Read A sky chart showing Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus in a "planet parade." Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech On most ...

These events, often called “planet parades” or “planetary alignments,” though not exceedingly rare, are worth observing since they don’t happen yearly.

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a seven-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

To see the whole shebang, you’ll need a pretty unobstructed view of the horizon in an area with relatively little light ...

Kevin Durant’s move to Golden State in 2016 drew the ire of the NBA world. This would be a sweeter reunion, but the path to a ...

These two next weeks offer all but one of the planets in lovely view at nightfall. Fred Schaaf goes step by step through the ...

From planets and constellations, to eclipses and the Aurora Borealis, here's what to look for in the sky this spring ...

Because the Moon is over a quarter the diameter of Earth, the Earth-Moon system is often cited as the pairing in our Solar ...