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

The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...

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

Don't put your binoculars away just yet, the planet parade continues through February. Here's which planets will be visible ...

This arc is known as the ecliptic — the plane on which the planets orbit the sun. From our viewpoint on Earth, they don’t ...

Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...

The planets in our solar system orbit the sun essentially along a line across the sky in a plane called the ecliptic. For that reason, planets in our Earthly sky always appear somewhere along a ...

Californians watching the sky in February have the chance to view a parade of planets and a snow moon. The planetary ...

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, ...