Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye ...

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

Yes, six planets will be visible in the January night sky. And yes, they'll be in a line. But because planets always appear in a line from our Earth-bound vantage, the alignment isn't anything out ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

the planets visible this month will be flung across the sky at varied depths, distances, and positions. Time likens the phenomenon to “randomly placing six different people at six different ...

A great planetary alignment that's coming sometime this month — there are a few different dates being thrown around. Rumor has it that as many as six planets will be in a line and visible in the ...

(Representative Image) While such events are a matter ... around the Sun in the same flat plane, they do it at different speeds. The planet closest to the Sun is Mercury and it takes 88 days ...