Stargazers, prepare for the parade of planets that will take place over the next few nights in the sky. Here's what you need ...

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

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

While claims of a “rare alignment” are overblown, you can still see up to six planets in the night sky this weekend. Here's ...

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

Researchers have created an improved traffic light system for predicting geomagnetic storms. They are now testing how well ...

Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...

Moving at roughly 20,505 miles per hour along the distant world's equator, it’s the fastest known jet stream that wraps ...

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 ...

Claims of a "rare planetary alignment" are misleading; it's just visible planets. A true "golden conjunction" occurs on Sept.

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...