Astronomers use planetary alignment to describe the phenomenon when planets gather closely on one side of the Sun at the same ...

"Pale Blue Dot" – one of the last photos taken by Voyager 1 – is still the most distant image of the Earth. Astronomer Carl ...

The year 2025 has already been a spectacular time for stargazers and skywatchers. Last month, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, ...

White dwarf stars could host habitable planets. Fast planetary rotation reduces cloud cover, keeping surface temperatures stable.

Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, Mars and Mercury will be visible in an uncommon planetary alignment this month.

Scientists have long overlooked white dwarfs as hosts for habitable exoplanets, assuming their lack of fusion would make life impossible. But new climate models challenge that idea, showing that ...

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

Four planets will be widely visible to the naked eye through part of February, but calling them a 'planetary alignment' may not be the full picture.

There will also be two total lunar eclipses that occur during the March and September full moon events. A lunar eclipse, ...

VENUS, the so-called planet of love, is set to shine its brightest all year tomorrow – coincidentally, on Valentine’s Day. The second planet from the Sun won’t glow as bright ...

It is not often that all the planets in the Solar System other than ours are lined up across the night sky for us to see.