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Astronomer Dean Regas gives us the lowdown on the best things to look out for this winter, from a “planet parade” to the ...

Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...

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

Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched ...

A parade of planets will be visible to skywatchers around the globe through the rest of this month and into February.

All month, four planets — Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars — will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours after dark, according to NASA.

Six planets – Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune – are currently visible in the night sky. During just one night in late February, they will be joined by Mercury, a rare seven ...