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 ...

In a small window of time around February 28, people on the earth were in for a visual treat as seven planets, plus the moon, ...

We see them this way from Earth because they all orbit the sun in nearly the same flat “disk” of space called the ecliptic plane. This makes the planets appear to follow the same path across ...

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 ...

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.

Why does this happen? “Planetary alignments occur because the planets in our solar system orbit the Sun within roughly the same plane, known as the ecliptic plane,” explains Dr Shyam Balaji ...