Go outside on a clear night right after sunset and you’ll be able to see Venus and Saturn to the southwest, Mars to the east, ...

Look up into the sky above Washington state this month on a clear night, and you might see a rare celestial occurrence in the sky. During January 2025, a large planetary conjunction involving four ...

It seems 2025 will have a strong start, too, with a planet parade just a few weeks into the new year. A planet parade is when several of our solar system's planets are visible in the night sky at ...

An artist’s impression of a small, rocky interstellar object hurtling from the upper right toward the inner solar system. The orbits of the four inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars) are ...

This January, the night sky offers a stunning display featuring the Quadrantid meteor shower and a rare alignment of four bright planets visible in a single view. Witness Mars at opposition, shining ...

All the planets revolve around it on roughly the same plane, and they also move in the same direction. Even so, there are slight anomalies in the architecture of our stellar neighborhood that can ...

Want to see Mars at its brightest in January? The best telescopes for seeing planets give you the clearest views of our celestial neighbors. The new year is a great time to test out your ...

We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too? Though extra-terrestrial life in Tolkien's universe has not been ...

A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in order to ...