While the grand spectacle takes place next month, six of the seven planets will appear in the sky at once in a large ...

With a rare black moon and the peak of the year's first major meteor shower already behind us, January is shaping up to be an ...

A very rare treat is about to grace Earth's night skies. On the evening of 28 February 2025, all seven of the other planets ...

"BepiColombo's main mission phase may only start two years from now, but all six of its flybys of Mercury have given us invaluable new information about the little-explored planet." ...

The line on which they sit is known as the ecliptic, which is the plane of the solar system on which the planets orbit the Sun. What is curious, however, is that we’re getting to see them at the ...

The Quadrantids’ radiant lies in the now-defunct constellation Quadrans Muralis, a region of the sky occupied by Boötes. It’s ...

But later – hundreds of millions of years in the future – a permanent, virtually ringless Saturn will become real, thanks to ...

The newcomer replacing Pluto presently goes by “Planet Nine.” If and when it finally shows up, it will get the honor of a ...

Six planets will all be visible at once in the night sky this month, lined up across the sky—but one is set to disappear from view.

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a ...

"That line is called the ecliptic, and it represents the plane of the solar system in which the planets orbit around the Sun." To see the planets line up, head outside on a clear night after sunset.