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

A very rare treat is about to grace Earth's night skies. On the evening of 28 February 2025, all seven of the other planets ...

Light covers 186,000 miles EVERY SECOND (kids ... times farther from the Sun than the Earth is. We see a planet like Jupiter because its light—which like the other planets and the Moon ...

Each evening, enjoy a sweeping view of four planets at once. Also look for Mars occulted by the Moon and meteors!

Everyone knows about the Solar System, and the planets that make it up. They’re in space, orbiting the Sun, in an order we all at least used to be able to recite. But it was not always so.

Read more: Full Moons Explained, From Blue Moons to Supermoons to Lunar Phases You won't have to wait long for all six planets to be in the sky. They'll be there as soon as the sun sets.