Mercury: Visible in Leo but will be hard to see due to its proximity to sunrise. Uranus: This distant ice giant is too faint ...

Bonus: depending on cloud coverage, the moon will also be visible. A planetary alignment goes down, up high, when more than two planets align in the sky. If three planets align, it’s known as a ...

RHODE ISLAND — The Perseid meteor shower is winding down, but take a peek at the pre-dawn skies over Rhode Island through ...

That’s when two or more planets appear in the sky, forming a visible alignment from Earth’s perspective. The larger the number of planets involved, the rarer the event. According to NASA ...

O'Donoghue pays a visit to NCPR's morning news show, Northern Light, to guide us through what to look for in the morning and ...

Opposition is generally the best time to view planets, as they are highest around local midnight ... magnitude 0.6 Saturn for ...

New simulations suggest that there are enough primordial black holes—potential dark matter candidates—in the universe for one ...

From a solar eclipse to a dolphin-like nebula, these winning shots by astrophotographers from around the world depict the ...

In an eccentric twist, the hot Jupiter spotted in 2005 was found to be in an orbit just over six days long. The recently ...