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

Hubble Space Telescope images of Jupiter have been "photo-mapped onto a sphere," and animated into a full rotation, according to ESA/NASA. Credit: Space.com | NASA, ESA, J. DePasquale (STScI), A. Simo ...

Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...

Venus, Jupiter and Mars will dazzle in the night sky this month, giving stargazers of all levels a great show. The three ...

These two next weeks offer all but one of the planets in lovely view at nightfall. Fred Schaaf goes step by step through the ...

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

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

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

February brings a rare planetary parade, with five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and Saturn ...