“When it’s brightest, Venus appears as an eerily eye-catching beacon,“ EarthSky wrote. ”Many mistake it for a UFO. It’s ...

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

NASA said the system is thought to be moving at least 1.2 million miler per hour, nearly twice as fast as our solar system.

The four planet-strong "planet parade" currently visible to the naked eye in the night sky for a short time after sunset will ...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.

The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...

Six planets are part of the alignment, which will last until Feb. 18. Mercury will join the alignment later in the month.

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

Astronomers at NASA have caught a glimpse of a star system whipping through space at an unprecedented speed. While the system ...

These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...

The four-planet lineup that began in January concludes by mid- to late February, as Saturn sinks increasingly lower in the sky each night after sunset, according to NASA. While Mercury will briefly ...