The nights surrounding June 7 will see Jupiter and Mercury crowd together close to the horizon in the northwestern sky.

The night sky will offer stargazers a special sight for the next several weeks: Right now, all planets except Mercury can be seen after sundown—then, in late February, the missing planet will ...

The planets follow the ecliptic, the plane in which they orbit the sun. Every planet orbits the sun at different speeds and ...

When it comes to four or more planets in the night sky, that's a bit less common, occurring every few years or so. But we happen to be in something of a hotspot for planetary parades right now.

The Night Sky This Week: May 12-18, 2025. The moon takes center stage this week as it reaches its full phase, then wanes. After the vibrant “flower moon” rising in the southeast on Monday and ...

Venus and Saturn came within just a finger width’s apart in our view of the night sky this week in a dual planetary conjunction. In reality, the two planets are hundreds of millions of miles apart.

Still, the planetary parade, as the event is colloquially named, “makes for a very nice excuse to go outside at night, maybe with a glass of wine, and enjoy the night sky.” A Parade of Planets ...

INDIANA, USA — As soon as the sun sets, step outside and look up to witness a rare celestial event: full planetary alignment. Between Feb. 23 and Feb. 28, 2025, all seven planets will align in the ...

Seven planets are aligning in the night sky and will be visible Friday, February 28. The alignment, also called a "planet parade," happens when planets' orbits around the sun cause them to appear ...

This week, a rare astrological phenomenon is happening in our night sky. All seven other planets in our solar system will be visible from North America, in a display known as the planet parade.

If you’re searching the sky after dark, the space agency says on clear nights you should easily be able to see Venus and Saturn in the southwest. Jupiter will be high overhead. Mars will be in ...

How to See Six Planets Lined Up in the Night Sky This Month—and Glimpse a Rare Seven-Planet ‘Parade’ in February While the planets are technically always “aligned” along the same plane ...