Venus glowed brightly on a clear night sky over Saint Petersburg, Russia. Footage shows the heavenly body shining above the ...

If planets had social media accounts, the solar system would showcase a frenzy of unique personalities. Mercury tweets at ...

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

Five of the brightest planets will be visible to the naked eye. With help, you may even spot Uranus and Neptune.

According to a recent YouGov poll, 35% of Americans think Pluto is not a planet. But they are all wrong—kind of. To get to ...

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

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 ...

These events, often called “planet parades” or “planetary alignments,” though not exceedingly rare, are worth observing since they don’t happen yearly.

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

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

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

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