Space has a knack for bending our sense of scale. The Moon feels close enough to touch—after all, we see its craters with ...

You can view all eight planets simultaneously in the dawn sky now through the end of the month. All the planets including the sun and moon travel along an imaginary circle in the sky called the ...

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) defines a planet as a celestial body orbiting the Sun, possessing sufficient mass for a nearly spherical shape, and having cleared its orbital neighborhood ...

The alignment on June 3 will be visible in much of the Northern Hemisphere, depending on the weather Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Six of eight planets in our solar system will align in a straight line in the midnight sky very soon. The planetary alignment, which has been called a "planet parade", will happen on ...

Friday holds a special celestial treat in store for astronomers and amateur stargazers. Mercury will become the seventh planet to line up in a current “planetary parade” that’s happening, joining ...

When I was a kid, there were nine planets. Now we know of thousands! But that includes exoplanets, alien worlds that orbit alien suns. Only eight planets call our solar system home. Or there might ...

Here's everything you need to know about this week's parade of seven planets. Getty Images A seven-luminaries-deep parade of planets will line up and light up the night sky this week, folks. Just ...

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January. A planetary alignment, or a "planet parade" according to the internet, will grace our night sky just after dusk, according ...

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six- and seven-planet "alignments" in February. A planetary alignment, or a "planet parade" according to the internet, will grace our night sky just after dusk ...