East Lancashire stargazers will be treated to an astrological phenomenon this week thanks to the rare alignment of six planets.

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

A rare planetary alignment is set to be witnessed this evening in Kenya as six major planets from the solar system which have ...

While planets circle the sun in what's called a heliocentric orbit, they rarely fall together in what appears to the human eye as somewhat of a line across the visible horizon. Saturday is one of ...

Six planets are parading across the sky, appearing as some of the night's brightest stars. A few easy tips can help you ...

Worlds will align for a "planetary parade" in January, with four bright and easily visible to the naked eye. But an even ...

Generally, the nights of and near the new moon – when the moon is not illuminated – are better for most stargazing experiences. Here are the dates of new moons this year.

From west to east, Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars will make an arc across Wyoming’s night sky in a parade ...

While the planets are technically always "aligned" along the same plane in our sky, seeing so many at once is a special ...

In the early evening, look to the southwest and you'll see Venus (the brightest object in the sky after the Sun and Moon) and ...

Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced new discoveries about an extreme form of planetary destruction: apparently ...