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

You’ll find several bright planets, stars and obvious constellations in the February evening sky. The most obvious constellation this month is Orion. To find Orion, face south and look for Orion’s ...

A planetary alignment, or a "planet parade" according to the internet, will grace our night sky just after dusk, according to SkyatNightMagazine. We'll see six planets in the first part of February – ...

Though the planets are always “aligned,” seeing more than four in the sky is more uncommon. February’s lineup is a chance to ...

Currently shining at its greatest brilliance for this current apparition, this dazzling evening "star" currently appears as a ...

As we discussed last month, late January and early February will provide a stage for a Planet Parade, with six planets lining up in the night sky. On February 1, we should see the crescent moon in ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

This is the last chance to catch the pair in conjunction this year—with Venus set to be unusually bright in the night sky.

After five weeks and a general malaise, January is behind us, and the brief, bright month of February is straight ahead.

Sometimes, the best innovative ideas come from synthesizing two previous ones. We've reported before on the idea of having a ...

A remarkable sight will appear in the southwestern sky an hour after sunset Saturday evening when Venus appears very close to a thin crescent moon.