Six planets are parading across the sky, appearing as some of the night's brightest stars. A few easy tips can help you identify them.

The BBC’s Sky at Night magazine said: “There is an imaginary line that the path of the Sun traces across the daytime sky, and this is known as the 'ecliptic'. “The ecliptic is due to the ...

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

The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...

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

it doesn't climb high because the ecliptic - the apparent path of the Sun across the sky that the planets follow closely - makes a shallow angle to the western horizon after sunset at this time of ...

Six planets are lining up in a row from our Earthly view of the cosmos, in a spectacle that'll be visible in January through to February.

The alignment will occur along the ecliptic plane — the imaginary line that traces the path of the Sun across the sky. This is where most of our solar system's planets reside. As they line up in ...

It's the same reason the sun always follows the same path across the sky. That's nothing special. However, it's uncommon for so many planets to be on the same side of the sun, visible in the night ...

it doesn’t climb high because the ecliptic — the apparent path of the Sun across the sky that the planets follow closely — makes a shallow angle to the western horizon after sunset at this ...