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

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The eight planets in our solar system orbit the sun in roughly the same plane, because they all originally formed from the same disc of debris around the sun. The line the sun traces across the ...

A planetary alignment, or a "planet parade" according to the internet, will grace our night sky just after dusk, according to ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

When we join him next month, King will be freshly arrived from Norway, where he’s leading a Roads Scholar trip to see the Northern Lights. Minnesota Night Skies will be a monthly podcast for the ...

Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Mercury and Saturn will appear in a row on the evening of 28 February, marking the last time for 15 years that all of the planets will be visible at the same ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...

Hernandez runs the planetarium at UTRGV and says all the planets in our solar system will be visible tonight. Six planets will be visible to the naked eye and eight can be seen if you have a ...

Only eight planets call our solar system home ... Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto all claimed that moniker. But then some pesky astronomers had to go ...