Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but get a telescope and you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...

A planetary alignment, or a "planet parade" according to the internet, will grace our night sky just after dusk, according to SkyatNightMagazine. We'll see six planets in the first part of February – ...

In February, six planets will align in the night sky — Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars — and be mostly visible to the naked eye. We find out how to see and more about this ...

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

Have you ever wondered why the planets in our solar system align along a flat plane? Discover the science behind this cosmic arrangement, from the formation of the protoplanetary disk to the forces ...

As we discussed last month, late January and early February will provide a stage for a Planet Parade, with six planets lining up in the night sky. On February 1, we should see the crescent moon in ...

Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the WASP-132 system, finding two new planets that defy previous ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.