A planetary alignment happens when several planets appear in a line from Earth’s point of view. Mercury will join Venus, Mars ...

Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...

Spotting one or two of the planets in our solar system is well worth a good skywatch, but seeing (almost) all of them in a ...

Read A sky chart showing Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus in a "planet parade." Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech On most ...

Five of the brightest planets will be visible to the naked eye. With help, you may even spot Uranus and Neptune.

Witness a rare celestial spectacle as seven planets align in the night sky for one night in late February, offering a ...

The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

That said, finding a dark-sky area on a clear night towards the end of February will give you the best chance of spotting ...

As planets pass in front of their parent stars as viewed from Earth, they cause a tiny dip in the amount of starlight we ...

To see the whole shebang, you’ll need a pretty unobstructed view of the horizon in an area with relatively little light ...

Just as Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars move through the signs of the zodiac as they orbit, so do the outer planets.