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

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

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

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, ...

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

Though the planets are always “aligned,” seeing more than four in the sky is more uncommon. February’s lineup is a chance to ...

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

The new moon of January will be at 7:36 a.m. Eastern Time on Jan. 29, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory, and two days ...

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

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