In the depth of winter, a sweeping view of our solar system will glow in the night sky. In total, six planets will be visible ...

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

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

When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...

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

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to go out and spot the many planets currently in our night sky. You’ll see four of the five planets visible without optical aid. Venus and Saturn are in ...

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

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

A handful of planets in the solar system are expected to line up in the night sky for a few days in January 2025. Here's when ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

Davis Astronomy Club invites everyone on the evening of Saturday, Jan. 25, for a free viewing of the rare alignment of six ...

Stargazers who haven't had a chance to check out this month's planet parade will want to look up soon because there's ...