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

The great planetary parade in February 2025 will see five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and ...

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

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a seven-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant planets, suggests a new study.

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

It is not often that all the planets in the Solar System other than ours are lined up across the night sky for us to see.

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...