Here’s hoping for clear skies this weekend, It’s shaping up to be a great year for stargazers - many of us have already enjoyed seeing the Northern Lights and the Quadrantid meteor shower. Read more: ...

Who’s ready for a “planet parade”? The last planetary alignment was in August 2025, when six planets aligned and four were bright enough to be seen without a telescope. Next week, Mercury, Venus, ...

In April 2026, the early morning sky is expected to show a rare grouping of planets that may attract attention from skywatchers around the world. Mercury, Mars, Saturn and Neptune appear relatively ...

Skywatchers who spotted the Jupiter-Venus conjunction on Aug. 12 are in for a dazzling display in the night sky through the end of August, with a "planet parade" building in the eastern sky, with ...

Six planets will be visible in our skies for the next few days in the last “planetary parade” of 2025. Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus will be visible in the early morning skies ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A planet parade — mistakenly called a planetary alignment by ...

Mercury, Saturn, Mars, and Neptune will compactly align in the sky on the morning of April 18 in an event astronomers call a planetary alignment. While the peak viewing hours of the alignment are on ...

This weekend is the last chance to see any of February’s much-hyped “planet parade” or “planetary parade” before it completely fades from view. While six planets are technically above the horizon ...

A rare six-planet "alignment" will be visible to stargazers Saturday night, Feb. 28. Soon after sunset, a planetary alignment, also known as a "planet parade," will brighten up our night sky, ...

A triple planetary alignment on 11 May 2026 in Aries, involving Mars, Mercury and the Sun, is set to form ‘Trigrahi Yog'.