On Feb. 24, from west to east, you can see Mercury, Saturn, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars, all spanning 117.5°, plus Earth under your feet—all eight known planets of our solar system!

On Feb. 24, from west to east, you can see Mercury, Saturn, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars, all spanning 117.5°, ...

While this planetary alignment isn't particularly rare, it is relatively uncommon. Spotting two, three, or even four bright planets at once is not unusual, but the chance to see all five together ...

Venus appears low in the evening sky, guiding us to Saturn. Jupiter makes an attractive sight below the Hyades and Mars ...

Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...

NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants ...

Enrico Chesta, Véronique Ferlet-Cavrois and Markus Brugger highlight seven ways CERN and ESA are working together to further ...

A massive hotspot - larger the Earth's Lake Superior - can be seen just to the right of Io's south pole in this annotated ...

Venus, the brightest point of light in the sky, is two and a half fists held upright and at arm’s length above the ...

The celestial bodies in our solar system take many forms. Some are made of rock, others gas, and others even ice. The farther ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The first full moon of 2025 is the called the Wolf Moon. It will be rising into the night sky this week.