A rare 'smiley face' triple conjunction is coming to Earth's morning skies on April 25, when Venus, Saturn and the crescent ...

April’s planetary parade has fewer planets. Only four will line up: Venus, Saturn, Mercury and Neptune. April's parade of ...

For that event, you had to get up before sunrise, because all of the planets ... moon, closely follow an imaginary line in the sky called the ecliptic. The ecliptic is also the path the sun ...

The moon dims, the meteors fly, and the planets dance—these are the most exciting celestial events happening this month.

April’s pink “micromoon” will appear smaller than other full moons this year as it nears its farthest point from Earth in its ...

Venus will be one of the brightest things in the sky, and Mars will be hanging out near the moon with ... happens when the planets’ orbits line them up on one side of the sun from Earth ...

While the tidal pull of each planet on the Sun is extremely small, Stefani says that when two or more of the planets line up with the Sun ... Saturn's fascinating moon, and could not do ...

In particularly rare events, all eight planets may line up in such a way that they appear in our night sky together, following the ecliptic – the sun's apparent path through the sky. Preston Dyches, ...

Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an inferior conjunction.

Stargazers have been gifted the rare sight of a line up of ... six planets – Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune – could be seen. But now Mercury has joined the planetary party, as they ...