This week, for the third time in eight months, Uranus will have a "close encounter" with Jupiter. Jupiter is currently the brightest object in the evening sky, being high in the south at sunset, and ...

While the weather might be tough for seeing it tonight, there's a chance to see a 7-planet alignment in the skies tonight in Massachusetts. Supposedly, this will be the last such alignment of planets ...

Six planets will be parading through the sky at the end of the month, and you won’t have to stay up late into the night to ...

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 ...

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. March 14: Io rounds Jupiter The distant ice giant ...

So, it came as a shock to many people when, in 1781, it was announced that a seventh planet, the first to be discovered since ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the first vertical map of Uranus’s ionosphere, giving scientists a ...