Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

Here’s what you should know when you go outside to see for yourself: Yes, the planets are indeed lined up across our sky. No, ...

Spotting one or two of the planets in our solar system is well worth a good skywatch, but seeing (almost) all of them in a ...

Read A sky chart showing Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus in a "planet parade." Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech On most ...

To see the whole shebang, you’ll need a pretty unobstructed view of the horizon in an area with relatively little light ...

Just as Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars move through the signs of the zodiac as they orbit, so do the outer planets.

February stargazing is fantastic for many reasons, but this year there’s a one-two-three punch of bright planets adding to ...

Scientists measured a chorus wave emerging from an unexpected place, and confirmed a key piece of a theory about how these ...

An asteroid set to swing by Earth in 2032 has small chance of smashing into our planet, but experts aren't panicking — yet.