The night sky is about to light up with rare planetary alignment
A great alignment of all of Earth's planetary neighbors will soon take place in the night sky in a rare celestial show. The term "planetary alignment" is used to describe when several planets gather in a small area in the sky simultaneously,
Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.
Feb. 18 marks the 95th anniversary of the discovery of our outermost planet-not-planet. Here's what to know about the short ...
Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar ...
Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...
Pluto may not be a planet any more, but you still have a chance to see the distant dwarf planet at one of Michigan's ...
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This one is different and exciting: a rare smile conjunction will occur on April 25. This phenomenon happens when the ...
Scientists have long overlooked white dwarfs as hosts for habitable exoplanets, assuming their lack of fusion would make life ...
Six planets are part of the alignment, which will last until Feb. 18. Mercury will join the alignment later in the month.
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Is Pluto a planet or not? Who cares! Our love for the King of the Kuiper Belt is stronger than ever 95 years laterThe controversy endures over Pluto's true status, but the solar system underdog continues to capture hearts across the globe.
Astronomers have peered into an alien planet's atmosphere and found extreme weather unlike anything in the solar system.
A planetary parade is a rare phenomenon, and incredibly this will be the last time seven planets line up until 2040! But when ...
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