The best opportunity to potentially see all seven planets is coming up on Feb. 28 around 6:10 p.m. ET, according to Shanahan. Mercury, which is the closest planet to the sun, would be the first to be ...

This week, the night sky will provide the opportunity to view up to seven planets in our solar system. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will be visible to the naked eye. Uranus and Neptune can ...

"Uranus and Neptune, of course, are there, but you need optical aid to see them, and you'll probably not catch Jupiter and Mars, which are higher in the sky, until at least darkness starts to fall." ...

Tonight kicks off great week of star gazing in Pennsylvania, with the full moon rising next to Venus and a rare planetary parade this month, February ...

Unable to view our graphics? Click here to see them ... 2:03 p.m. Saturday 4:18 a.m. Friday 9:10 a.m. perfect visibility Jupiter Friday 11:41 a.m. Saturday 1:34 a.m. Friday 6:38 p.m. fairly ...

The Great Red Spot is all the way to the left. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt /Seán Doran A new view of Jupiter takes the usual shot of the ...

In this rare event, a full moon, also dubbed the "Worm Moon," will coincide with a lunar eclipse — causing a total lunar ...

Five planets are visible by looking up at the sky: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn ... You'll have the best chance of viewing the alignment if you can find a location free of light ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The International Astronomical Union officially recognized 128 new moons orbiting ...

More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, Callisto, appears geologically unremarkable. In the 1990s, however ...