On the evening of February 28, stargazers will witness a rare celestial event: an alignment of seven planets visible ...

Alignments of five or more planets are rare—there will be two more featuring five or more planets this year, but after that ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

Venus and Saturn will be in conjunction this weekend, appearing side by side in the night sky during January's post-sunset ...

Throughout January, stargazers in India can witness a spectacular planetary parade featuring Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, ...

Plus: Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible, our Moon passes the bright star Spica, and Mars skims south of Pollux in Gemini in ...

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

Mars is known as the 'Red Planet.' Learn about its reddish hue, caused by iron oxide, its position as the fourth planet from ...

The larger moons of Pluto and Earth likely formed through a collisional process with Charon and our moon, respectively, ...

Alinda, measuring 2.6 miles wide, will be visible this weekend. Stargazers can spot it using basic equipment or watch a ...

We haven’t seen the Red Planet this luminous in the night sky since 2022. Our astrotourism expert shares how and when to ...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot storm, which usually appears dark-red, can be seen shining a lurid blue color in an ultraviolet ...