Five of the solar system's planets (besides Earth, of course) are visible to the naked eye in the night sky at various times of the year: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. If you use ...

Fred Schaaf promises plenty of opportunities for spectacular views of the moon, planets and stars these next two weeks.

The night sky at around 10pm this month (Nigel Henbest) Considerably dimmer, but still outshining the stars in the western ...

Uranus has long been thought to have been a completely "dead" planetary system - but now experts are not so sure.