Throughout January, four planets will line up in the night sky and be simultaneously visible to the naked eye in the Northern ...

J anuary is a good month for interesting planetary alignment. You will have a lot going on in the night sky. For most of the ...

Stargazers won't need any special equipment to view the four-planet alignment as it will be visible to the naked eye. However, if you have a telescope, you can spot two additional planets, Uranus and ...

If you are up before dawn this January, look for the bright — but elusive — planet Mercury in the sunrise direction. Try ...

A NASA spacecraft may have made history, flying closer to the sun than any object sent before. The Parker Solar Probe had been on course to fly around 6.1 million kilometres from the surface ...

A Nasa spacecraft will attempt to make history on Christmas Eve with the closest-ever approach ... closer to the sun – flying past Venus in order to use the planet’s gravity to move it into ...

NASA could make this Christmas Eve one to remember as its pioneering Parker solar probe is poised to make its closest-ever approach to the Sun ... be on December 27 in order to check whether ...

Now in its closest orbit yet, Parker will pass just 3.8 million miles above the sun's surface. It will be within the corona, the super-heated outer atmosphere that's visible from Earth as bright ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe was expected to make history on Tuesday by flying into the sun's outer atmosphere called the corona on a mission to help scientists learn more about Earth's closest star ...

The Parker Solar Probe is attempting the closest ever pass ... propel a probe toward the sun. Many spacecraft use maneuvers called gravity assists, swinging by a planet or moon to increase and ...

Parker planned to get more than seven times closer to the sun than previous spacecraft, hitting speeds of 690,000 km/h at closest approach ... their space weather and planets are influenced ...

At 6:53 a.m. ET, the spacecraft is set to fly the closest to the sun of any human-made object ... "with the billions and billions of other planets that may or may not be like our own planets ...