Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

Mars will be making its closest approach to Earth in two years, and thus, the mighty red planet, named for the god of war ...

NASA Voyager 1 probe discovers Saturn’s moon, Epimetheus. Saturn would be the last planet Voyager 1 would visit before ...

The seven planets will not be perfectly aligned, but will appear in an arc across the sky due to their orbital plane in the Solar System.

These events are often called a planetary alignment, but planets always appear in a line in the sky because they orbit the sun — the difference is that they will appear closer to each other and ...

On the evening of February 28, stargazers will witness a rare celestial event: an alignment of seven planets visible ...

Planetary alignment is when several planets gather closely on one side of the sun simultaneously, according to Starwalk.space. This is colloquially referred to as a “planetary parade,” or a ...

Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn, already visible to the naked eye, will be joined by Mercury, Neptune & Uranus in a rare ...

Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter in 1979 and Saturn in ... It is not just within our Solar System that planet alignments are useful. Astronomers use alignments to probe many different aspects of ...