Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...

In the wake of the "blood moon" total lunar eclipse comes a last chance to see Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Mars with the ...

Isabella Castel-branco explores the excitement of planetary alignments, debunking common misconceptions and highlighting the best ways to observe February’s night sky.

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in ...

As humans, we’re curious about how we got here. When we look out at the night sky, we see stars and planets, even galaxies.

"Such a transition to a glacial state in 10,000 years' time is very unlikely to happen, because human emissions of carbon ...

The event occurs when multiple planets appear in close proximity in the sky along the ecliptic plane, creating the illusion of a cosmic lineup. The planetary parade is expected to be visible just ...

The stars may not be aligning on Friday night, but seven planets in our solar system just may be. For weeks, outer space enthusiasts have been gearing up for a planetary alignment, or "planetary ...

According to the team, the gravitational pull of our solar system's planets and passing stars ... at the intersection of the Galactic plane (an imaginary surface dividing the Milky Way in half) and ...

After dusk on Friday night, seven planets are expected to align in the night sky. But you'll need binoculars or a telescope ...

After Friday's spectacle, a "planet parade" of this size won't appear in the night sky for several years, experts say.

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