Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured this stunning long-exposure view of Earth and stars from space at night from the ...

Seven planets -- Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Mercury, Saturn and Venus -- will be visible simultaneously and look like they're all aligned when seen from Earth after sunset. A long awaited ...

A binary sunset only happens in “Star Wars,” but on Earth you can enjoy a “double sunrise.” In fact, one will be visible this ...

These discoveries reveal not just the planet’s past but also suggest ... and forth between the surface and deep Earth, potentially even implicating underground, deep-sourced water stores in ...

Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an ...

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus could all be visible with clear skies, but not all can be seen by the naked eye, according to ... just as Earth does. Every planet orbits ...

Such a sight won’t be visible again until 2040. "Seven planets will be visible in the evening sky," Bill Cooke, NASA astronomer based at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, told Fox ...

A solar eclipse is a shadow dance involving the sun, Earth and moon. The moon passes before the sun, blocking the star and casting a shadow on our planet ... very close to sunrise in these locations.

While Venus passes between the Earth and Sun every 19.5 months, it's only about every eight or so years that the planet becomes visible both after sunset and before sunrise, according to the ...