Four planets will be widely visible to the naked eye through part of February, but calling them a 'planetary alignment' may not be the full picture.

Last week, NASA reported that a newly identified asteroid has a more than 1 percent chance of striking Earth in December 2032, per a statement released by the agency. Now, astronomers have bumped ...

Look up this week for February’s full snow moon and to catch the last glimpse of a visible parade of planets in the night sky ...

"At this point, it's 'Let's pay a lot of attention, let's get as many assets as we can observing it,'" Bruce Betts, chief scientist of The Planetary Society, told AFP. Dubbed 2024 YR4, the ...

February's full moon will shine before Valentine's Day with an added bonus view of Venus — named after the Roman goddess of love — during the month's rare planetary parade. Stargazers are in ...

Its official name is the Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container No. 1008, but everyone, including Teasel Muir-Harmony, curator ...

Planet position forms the base that sets the mechanics of astrology in motion. The planetary position gives the degree, minutes and seconds of the Zodiac over which celestial bodies are transiting at ...

Seven planets are set to line up in a “planetary parade” this month for the last time before 2040. The rare astronomical event will see Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Mercury and ...

This month, stargazers will be able to see seven planets in the evening sky, in a celestial event known as a great alignme nt. Five planets — Saturn, Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Mercury — will ...

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the centre of the story of humanity. Overcrowding can lead to disaster, and yet ...

Get closer to our solar companions with the best telescopes for seeing planets, just in time for February's fantastic planetary parade. Want to focus your stargazing on our cosmic neighbors ...

Cyrus Teed, who took the name Koresh, brought his flock from Chicago to Estero, where they grew to only about 250 but left a ...