The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...

In a celestial event known as a great alignment the five planets will be discernible with the naked eye, but to see Neptune ...

However, don’t expect to spy the Red Planet's two tiny moons through a telescope. By themselves, they are very faint and it's even more challenging to view them with the bright glare of Mars nearby, ...

There are eight planets in the solar system, and each travels on its own path around the sun. But of these planets, which is nearest to the sun? Mercury is a strange little world. There are some ...

A shortcut for New Yorkers to spot some of the planets is to look for them when they are near the moon. On Feb. 1, Venus will ...

Each planet takes a different length of time to orbit the sun: Venus, for instance, completes one orbit in 225 days, while Mercury zips around the star in 88 days and Saturn takes 29.4 years to ...