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

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

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, followed by Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Mercury orbits ...

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

There are eight planets in the solar system, and each travels on its own path around the sun. But of these planets, which is nearest to the sun? Mercury is a strange little world. There are some ...

By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...

Fridays are better than Mondays, lazy days are better than chore days, and summer days are better than rainy days.  But what ...

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

You might want to keep your eyes on the skies through next month: Six planets will align in January and February.

You'll be able to easily see four planets in the February evening sky ... After attaining opposition with the sun last month, Mars is now moving away from Earth and consequently is now gradually ...

Although it encompasses some of winter’s darkest nights, February spurs daydreams of lighter days ahead. In just a matter of ...

It's not especially remarkable for a few planets to line up in the sky, but the sight of four or five brilliant planets at once is less common, according to NASA. How does the ali ...