In a celestial event known as a great alignment the five planets will be discernible with the naked eye, but to see Neptune ...

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

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

Here’s what you should know when you go outside to see for yourself: Yes, the planets are indeed lined up across our sky. No, ...

They appear as bright points of light with Venus being the brightest, and Mercury the faintest and most ... the moon appear strung along a line in Earth’s skies because follow a path known ...

After attaining opposition with the sun last month, Mars is now moving away from Earth and consequently ... evening apparition of Mercury for mid-northern observers. Venus — the resplendent ...

Interestingly, despite being farther from the sun, Venus is actually hotter ... are also incredibly long. Because Mercury rotates so slowly — once every 58 Earth days — in some places, the ...

February is no ordinary month—it’s a cosmic shake-up with Venus floating through dreamy Pisces, Mercury pushing ambitions in ...

The northern hemisphere is displayed in this global view of the surface of Venus as seen by NASA Magellan spacecraft. This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of the planet Venus, ...

Skywatchers: February's celestial events include the Snow Moon, Venus's peak brightness, and a stunning planetary alignment.

Planets continue their nighttime shows, with eight visible at points during February, including Venus on Feb. 14.