Who’s ready for a “planet parade”? The last planetary alignment was in August 2025, when six planets aligned and four were bright enough to be seen without a telescope. Next week, Mercury, Venus, ...

Move over Mardi Gras, there’s a new parade gearing up to hit the skies this weekend. At any given time, most people can look up at the sky and see at least one planet, provided that they know where to ...

Mercury, Saturn, Mars, and Neptune will compactly align in the sky on the morning of April 18 in an event astronomers call a planetary alignment. While the peak viewing hours of the alignment are on ...

Venus and Jupiter light up the May 2026 evening sky, moving closer each day and setting the stage for a rare and stunning planetary conjunction in early June.

The large, gaseous planets Jupiter and Saturn will come together in December for a rare planetary alignment not seen since medieval times, astronomers said. "Alignments between these two planets are ...