Word is sure getting around about the "parade of planets" visible in our evening sky! Many of the news outlets and social media sites are posting articles or stories about ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but get a telescope and you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

A planetary alignment, or a "planet parade" according to the internet, will grace our night sky just after dusk, according to SkyatNightMagazine. We'll see six planets in the first part of February – ...

Though the planets are always “aligned,” seeing more than four in the sky is more uncommon. February’s lineup is a chance to ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

A team of astronomers have discovered a rather curious exoplanetary system that has two gas giant planets that are messing up each other’s orbit! On of them is 3.8 times the mass of Jupiter and ...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

Long ago, a planetary object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have once visited the solar system and altered […] The post ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

While planets circle the sun in what's called a heliocentric orbit, they rarely fall together in what appears to the human eye as somewhat of a line across the visible horizon. Saturday is one of ...

Two papers showed these intriguing signals, but the team stresses that there are currently many uncertainties to confirming ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy in just three years. A new project celebrates its impact on the ...