March’s night sky brings a total lunar eclipse, a rare chance to see Mercury, and shifting planets. Don’t miss these ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed toward orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the ...

While alignments themselves aren't special, it is rare to have an opportunity to observe multiple planets simultaneously without ... sky. But because Venus and Mercury orbit closer to the sun than ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Above will be Uranus (not visible without a telescope), Jupiter and ... The ecliptic is the same path the sun takes in the daytime sky. As seen from Earth, whatever is on one side of the solar ...

According to NASA, multi-planet lineups are visible "every few years," but a seven-planet alignment is particularly uncommon, as each planet's orbit varies, with some moving more quickly and Mercury, ...

Mars SKY AT Viewed from above the solar system, the seven planets will fall within Earth’s line of sight ... two planets are too far away to be seen without binoculars or a telescope.