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 ...

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

See the chart below for the positioning of the planets and what direction to look ... are lining up on the same side of the sun in their orbits around it. Saturn’s rings are ‘disappearing ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

Only the three stars that make up the Alpha Centauri system lie closer to us. The planets newly discovered around Barnard’s ...

The orbits of our solar system’s planets—including Earth—are all similarly oriented, forming a disk shape around the sun. They all chart their courses around our star in roughly the same ...

Notice Mars, Jupiter, and Venus are the most clear, with difficulties in viewing for the other planets. See the chart below for the positioning of the planets and what direction to look.

The reason we have the chance to see all the planets is that they are lining up on the same side of the sun in their orbits around it ... See the chart below for the positioning of the planets ...