Welcome to this month’s edition of “What’s up in the sky?” February has a nice lineup of planets and some eye-catching ...

Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...

Our Solar System is simple—one star, planets orbiting around it. But what happens in a system with multiple stars? Scientists ...

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six- and seven-planet "alignments" in February. A planetary alignment, or a "planet ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Faherty said the planets will set in a specific order. After sunset, look westward and first find Mercury next to the sun, followed by Saturn, then Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter, and finally Mars.

Six planets will be in alignment this weekend, with four of them shining bright in one sweeping view. What to know about the planet parade.

2025 is starting off with a bang for skygazers, with a planet parade now visible in the night sky. A planet parade is when several of our solar system's planets are visible in the night sky at the ...

The remaining dust and gas form a protoplanetary disk that encircles the new star, which slowly accretes to form systems of planets. For the past decade, astronomers have relied on the Atacama ...

Get closer to our solar companions with the best telescopes for seeing planets, just in time for February's fantastic planetary parade. Want to focus your stargazing on our cosmic neighbors ...