Four planets will be widely visible to the naked eye through part of February, but calling them a 'planetary alignment' may ...

A 'false dusk' will be visible during twilight in February, but only from locations that are free of light pollution. Here's ...

Here’s what you should know when you go outside to see for yourself: Yes, the planets are indeed lined up across our sky. No, ...

There will also be two total lunar eclipses that occur during the March and September full moon events. A lunar eclipse, ...

Because planets always appear in a line, the alignment isn't anything out of the norm. What's less common is seeing so many bright planets at once.

which is still on the other side of the sun. We will be one planet short of a maximum alignment. Six planets will still be possible to see in one ecliptic plane in the southern and eastern night sky, ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – here’s how to spot the celestial show ...

That is because the planets orbit the sun in an ecliptic plane. This illustration is from a northern hemisphere mid-latitude (near Indianapolis). From our view, the line of planets looks more like ...