The only planet that is out of the viewing loop this month is Saturn, which is too close to the sun to be seen, reaching solar conjunction on March 12. Earth will pass through the plane of Saturn ...

If you've got any interest in skygazing, this is your week. A stunning planet parade is now visible in the night sky. A planet parade is when several of our solar system's planets are visible in ...

This latest planetary alignment or "planet parade" - set to take place on the evening of Feb. 28, just after dusk, according to SkyatNightMagazine. Once they are all in place, seven of the eight ...

The planet parade will begin to wane as spring arrives, and while the planets are still visible at the end of February, the increasing daylight hours may make it slightly harder to see the parade ...

You may recall that Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union. Depending on weather conditions, on most nights there is at least one planet visible.

An exciting celestial show has come to brighten your week What once was six planets has now become seven, with planet parade’s new addition of Mercury. Also known as the ‘planetary parade’ or ...

Around the end of the month, Saturn will slip below the horizon and into daytime skies, ending the seven-planet parade. But stargazers will get another chance to see a planetary alignment in ...

With family wealth to back him, he founded an observatory in the western dark-sky desert of the U.S. and hoped to unlock the mystery of the Red Planet. He soon became fascinated by another cosmic ...

Feb. 18 marks the 95th anniversary of the discovery of our outermost planet-not-planet. Here's what to know about the short life of what was, for a single human lifetime, the solar system's ...

Pluto was discovered at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona in 1930 and was considered our ninth planet until 2006. The International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet ...