Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury will shine bright enough for the naked eye to see, and you can catch glimpses of Uranus and Neptune with binoculars or a telescope.

A rare full seven-planet alignment will be visible in the early night sky between Feb. 22 and 28. We have the tips you need ...

A star racing through the Milky Way may have a planet in tow, setting a new speed record for exoplanet systems. Using microlensing, astronomers spotted the pair moving at over 1.2 million mph.

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

Mars, which will appear as a reddish dot, will be the highest in the sky, located above the southern horizon in the ...

Stargazers in parts of the U.S. have a fleeting opportunity this month to catch a rare celestial phenomena—a "parade" of ...

The planet, if it is indeed a planet, is one of the most massive ever detected around a small star. One of the largest exoplanets to be found orbiting ... Mars is to the sun, but since its star ...

This technique involves measuring the subtle motion of a star as it is tugged by the gravity of an orbiting planet ... of the mass of the sun. Not only is Gaia-4b the first planet ever detected ...

But in 2003, Hubble detected a massive planet orbiting an ancient star in the M4 globular cluster, which is about 5,600 light-years distant in the Milky Way. Globular clusters are extremely old ...

Stargazing Brits will have the rare chance to witness a remarkable alignment of the planets from tonight. Ice planet Uranus and gas giant Neptune will also be able to be viewed through a telescope ...

you’d have to include the so-called dwarf planets, in which case there may be thousands orbiting the sun alone. Planets are a mess. Or perhaps more to the point, our way of thinking about them is.

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