Five of the brightest planets will be visible to the naked eye. With help, you may even spot Uranus and Neptune.

THE search for alien life across our Solar System and beyond has so far kicked up nothing intelligent – let alone microbial.

ANOTHER, even rarer, ‘planet parade’ is set to grace skies very soon. For one night only, all seven other planets in the ...

From January to March, the night sky will host a spectacular parade of planets featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The alignment peaks on January 25 and Mercury joins the ...

A new study suggests that a close encounter with a massive interstellar object, possibly eight times the mass of Jupiter, may have significantly altered the orbits of the four outer planets in our ...

It’s not every day you can step out your front door and see half the solar system with the naked eye. That’s the spectacle visible in Toronto and across Canada right now, as Venus, Saturn ...

Six of our cosmic neighbors are expected to line up across the night sky tonight, in what has been dubbed a "planetary parade". Throughout much of January and February, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, ...

Construction of a giant celestial solar farm is underway in China, with a scale comparable to creating a "Three Gorges Dam project above the Earth". The solar farm, which would be launched into ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade ... An alignment including all of the planets except Mercury is taking place in mid-January. Uranus and Neptune, being the most distant ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare alignment of seven planets on 28 February when Mercury joins six other planets that are already visible in the night sky. Here's why it matters to scientists.

The interlopers in these near matches dove straight into the solar system, traveling way past Uranus' orbit, with some even grazing Mercury's path. And they were relatively tiny, ranging from two ...