Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January. A planetary alignment, or a "planet parade" according to the internet, will grace our night sky just after dusk ...

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six- and seven-planet "alignments" in February. A planetary alignment, or a "planet parade" according to the internet, will grace our night sky just after ...

Six planets are visible in the night sky right now. On Feb. 28, Mercury will add a seventh planet to the planetary parade. Venus, Mars and Jupiter are 'great naked-eye targets' for beginning ...

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

Fictional and pseudo-science authors like to claim that a planetary alignment would mean that all of the gravitational fields of the planets add together to make something massive that interferes ...

Here are the highlights. This year saw planetary scientists add a number of exciting new worlds to our growing 5,000+ catalog of exoplanets. Among them are planets like we have never seen before.

and it’s going to add some new technology to help us improve that performance,” Bailey said. “And hopefully that means we’ll be able to see Jupiter-like planets around sun-like stars in a ...