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

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, ...

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With each passing night as, the crescent slowly widens and it begins to appear against a progressively darker background, its ...

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

In a celestial event known as a great alignment the five planets will be discernible with the naked eye, but to see Neptune ...

The northern hemisphere is displayed in this global view of the surface of Venus as seen by NASA Magellan spacecraft. This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of the planet Venus, ...

A Month of Bright Planets Venus blazes at its brightest for the year after sunset, then Mars and Jupiter to rule the night ...

Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.

Planetary alignments aren't rare, but they can be when they involve six of the eight planets in our solar system.

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, followed by Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Mercury orbits ...

Planets continue their nighttime shows, with eight visible at points during February, including Venus on Feb. 14.