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This month, if you should incline your head slightly upwards at night, you will receive a treat in the form of six of the eight planets visible in the skyline. Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun ...

Another astronomical event is set to take place next month! In the early hours of Monday, June 3, six of the eight planets — Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — will be present in the ...

January is a good month for interesting planetary alignment. You will have a lot going on in the night sky. For most of the month, six out of the eight planets will be visible in the heavens. Mercury ...

The planets of the solar system were lined up in the sky Wednesday night in an astronomical phenomenon, visible from Earth, known as a "planet parade." The phenomenon, which was also visible Tuesday ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known as a ...

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 ...

When the skies darken during the total solar eclipse on April 8, colors will change, and some stars and planets will be visible in the daytime. Here's what to look for, and where. When you purchase ...

It is a question that feels like it should have a straightforward answer: how many planets are there in our solar system? Since Pluto was relegated back down to dwarf planet status, almost everyone ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course. When ...

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 ...