What better way to start a season about the Earth than by looking back on it from an astronaut’s perspective? At a time when ...

What better way to start a season about the Earth than by looking back on it from an astronaut’s perspective? At a time when the activities of assorted billionaires and emerging superpowers are making ...

Venus and Saturn will be in conjunction this weekend, appearing side by side in the night sky during January's post-sunset ...

Youngstown State’s Ward Beecher Planetarium is usually where people sail through the rings of Saturn or feel the lightning storms of Jupiter, but Friday and Sunday, instead of gazing at the ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn can be spotted without special equipment, with Uranus and Neptune requiring a telescope.

This January, the night sky is putting on a show like no other. A rare parade of six planets will align, creating a celestial ...

Both Venus and Saturn will be in the Aquarius constellation, the water bearer, during their close approach. To help spot it, ...

Alignments of five or more planets are rare—there will be two more featuring five or more planets this year, but after that ...

Plus: Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible, our Moon passes the bright star Spica, and Mars skims south of Pollux in Gemini in ...

For the first time since its founding, nearly a quarter of a century ago, Blue Origin had reached orbit. The long-awaited ...

The six planets will be visible in the days immediately leading up to Jan. 21, and for about four weeks afterward. Mars, ...

Top notch amateur photographer Damian Peach took this Saturn picture three years ago, when the planet’s rings were angled halfway between their wide open orientation and this year’s perfectly edgewise ...