Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

ESA's groundbreaking Proba-3 mission has successfully initiated its formation-flying phase, with two spacecraft now set to ...

Although it's being mistakenly promoted as a "rare planetary alignment," one of the best "planet parades" in half a century ...

Planetary alignments aren't rare, but they can be when they involve six of the eight planets in our solar system.

Six planets are parading across the sky, appearing as some of the night's brightest stars. A few easy tips can help you ...

Starting at 12:30 p.m. ET (1730 GMT) on Saturday (Jan. 25), astrophysicist Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project ...

The U.S. Postal Service has issued two new stamps featuring iconic images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The stamps, ...

Worlds will align for a "planetary parade" in January, with four bright and easily visible to the naked eye. But an even ...

I sent an internal memo to my team about the evolution and role of software in distributed PV energy generation. Now, I'm ...

Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...

In the early evening, look to the southwest and you'll see Venus (the brightest object in the sky after the Sun and Moon) and ...

For much of January and February, you have the chance to see six planets in our solar system after dark, although two — Uranus and Neptune — will be hard to see without a telescope or high-powered ...