Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye ...

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has millions of fans worldwide who love the stunning images he captures and creates of the ...

But it won't be a star that will be keeping the moon company on this early winter's evening, but the largest planet in the ...

In a celestial event known as a great alignment the five planets will be discernible with the naked eye, but to see Neptune ...

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a seven-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

A planetary alignment, or a "planet parade" according to the internet, will grace our night sky just after dusk, according to ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but get a telescope and you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

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.

The most massive gas giants — planets more than five times Jupiter's mass — tend to have orbits that look more like long, stretched-out ovals than circles. Astronomers describe these orbits as ...