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

In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

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

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

The planets follow a visible path in the sky called the ecliptic, which shows their orbits from Earth's perspective ... planets appear to form a straight line, resembling a march across the ...

The planets of our solar system along the ecliptic. Credit: NASA These alignments are not uncommon, but the more planets involved, the rarer they become. The three closest planets to the sun – Mercury ...

The ecliptic is also the reason that we on Earth sometimes observe planets appearing ... "When viewed edge-on, this disc appears as a line." Whenever planets become visible, these events are ...