For a few evenings around 28 February, every planet in the solar system will be visible in the night sky, thanks to a rare great planetary alignment. Here's how to make sure you don't miss this ...

"All the planets go around the sun, like on a racetrack, they just run around the racetrack. And right now, they're all on the same track, so that you can see them at night." "They do appear ...

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

There are eight planets in our solar system ... Each planet has a different timeframe for complete rotation around the sun so all of them coming into alignment to be visible from Earth is a ...

Each of the solar system's eight planets will ... when the sun's afterglow has faded from the sky. In the Northern Hemisphere ...

The planets are so close to the star that they zip around their sun in a matter of days. Credit: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / R. Proctor / J. Pollard For a century ...

Due to their proximity to the star, these planets are likely too hot to support any form of life. Nevertheless, this find is ...

The orbit Venus takes around the sun results in an inferior conjunction as it transitions from appearing in the evening sky to the morning sky.

The best time to view the planets from the Northern Hemisphere will be just after sunset at around 8:30 p.m. local time ... have drifted too close to the sun to be readily visible with Venus ...