Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

However, none of the planets orbiting the sun have perfectly circular orbital paths and ... travelling past Uranus' orbit and some even grazed Mercury's path and they ranged from two to 50 times ...

Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...

Miranda, or 'Uranus V', was first spotted in 1948 and has a number of puzzling features for astronomers, including an unusual orbital inclination ... known their flight path would eventually ...

All planets revolve around the sun along the same orbital plane, known as the ecliptic ... it looks as though they are aligned as they path Earth, but the line will not be perfectly straight, ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. If you’ve never seen the seventh planet, Uranus, here comes one of the easiest chances you’ll get. In the early hours of ...

A new research is now looking at what really caused this change in the orbital path of planets ... which predict that Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune should have nearly circular and flat ...

January started out with a meteor shower and now has a planetary alignment in store. Here's what you'll be able to see and when to catch the event.