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

The Red Planet will be at its closest point to Earth, also known as perigee, on Jan. 12 and will be exactly opposite the sun ...

You might want to keep your eyes on the skies for the next couple of months: Six planets will align in January and February.

Stock illustration of all the solar system's planets. Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will be visible all at once this month. Stock illustration of all the solar system's planets.

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 ...

The seven planets will not be perfectly aligned, but will appear in an arc across the sky due to their orbital plane in the ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

Alignments of five or more planets are rare—there will be two more featuring five or more planets this year, but after that ...

"A parade of planets, also sometimes referred to as a planetary alignment, is when several planets in our solar system appear to line up in the sky from our perspective here on Earth," John Conafay, ...

In January, stargazers will be able to see four bright planets, the close dance of Venus and Saturn, Mars at opposition, and ...

Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are visible this month in a 'planetary parade'. Dr Becky Smethurst at the ...

Mars is known as the 'Red Planet.' Learn about its reddish hue, caused by iron oxide, its position as the fourth planet from ...