What views of the night sky would we have if we had evolved on the Jupiter moon Europa, or one of the TRAPPIST-1 planets?

Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Mercury, and Saturn will all be briefly visible in the evening sky. This phenomenon, ...

The much-heralded planet parade of 2025 is reaching its climax – and its end. This week, seven planets will briefly share the ...

To see the parade, find a dark place with a clear view of the western horizon at nightfall. Mercury and Saturn will be low in ...

Are 7 planets having a rare alignment in our night sky? News of this unusual celestial event has been flooding social media ...

Since Dec. 7, 2024, the red planet has been making its westerly retrograde. But on Monday, that all ends, according to ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

In January 2025, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were all visible in the night sky. And in February, 2025, ...

All of Earth's planetary neighbors are about to be visible in the night sky next week – though you may need binoculars to see ...

Mars, which will appear as a reddish dot, will be the highest in the sky, located above the southern horizon in the ...

While all seven planets could appear in some form in parts of the U.S., not all of them will be visible to the naked eye.

This phenomenon happens because all the planets orbit the Sun in nearly the same plane, called the ecliptic, causing them to ...