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In the early evening, look to the southwest and you'll see Venus (the brightest object in the sky after the Sun and Moon) and ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

A rare celestial event is set to take place, with all of our solar system's planets lining up through the night sky at once. This extraordinary spectacle, known as a great planetary alignment ...

Despite the name, a planetary alignment isn’t when the planets get in a row, it’s when a fair few gather on one side of the ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

For much of January and February, you have the chance to see six planets in our solar system after dark, although two — Uranus and Neptune — will be hard to see without a telescope or high-powered ...

The Red Planet will be at its closest point to Earth, also known as perigee, on Jan. 12 and will be exactly opposite the sun ...

The solar system consists of 8 planets, including Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Each planet has its own unique characteristics, such as size, composition ...

This seemed odd and illogical as when the Solar system formed ... the Sun on a more or less flat plane like the eight planets. Every couple of days it will scan the night sky with the largest ...