Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. March 14: Io rounds Jupiter The distant ice giant ...

Stargazers will soon have an opportunity to view six planets in alignment in the night sky, according to NASA. Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter will take part in a rare planetary ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the first vertical map of Uranus’s ionosphere, giving scientists a ...

So, it came as a shock to many people when, in 1781, it was announced that a seventh planet, the first to be discovered since ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, March 13Look north this evening a couple hours after sunset and you'll easily spot the large shape of the Big Dipper as it sits ...

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Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six- and seven-planet "alignments" in February. A planetary alignment, or a "planet parade" according to the internet, will grace our night sky just after dusk ...

Six planets are visible in the night sky right now. On Feb. 28, Mercury will add a seventh planet to the planetary parade. Venus, Mars and Jupiter are 'great naked-eye targets' for beginning ...