From Mercury to Neptune, observers in the United States will get to see this historic planet parade known as a large ...

For decades, Uranus and Neptune have been filed neatly into the “ice giant” drawer, shorthand for worlds built mostly from ...

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Several planets, including Mercury, Mars, Venus, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn, and Jupiter, are visible this month. Saturn's moon Titan will cast its shadow on Saturn twice during July. Neptune will be ...

It’s officially July’s retrograde season, as the outer planets—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto—all begin shifting into reverse. To be honest, this isn’t a rare occurrence. These ...

Here's everything you need to know about this week's parade of seven planets. Getty Images A seven-luminaries-deep parade of planets will line up and light up the night sky this week, folks. Just ...

It's not often that planets align in the night sky. Attention, stargazers: Another celestial phenomenon is set to appear in the night sky Friday evening. Seven planets -- Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, ...

Scientists may have missed the mark when they started referring to Uranus and Neptune as the "ice giant" planets of the solar system decades ago. Like giving a certain short-armed dinosaur a name that ...

The final 'planet parade' of the year will feature six planets aligning in the pre-dawn sky on Sunday, August 10. A planetary alignment, casually called a 'planet parade,' occurs when several planets ...

On August 10, six planets—Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—will line up in an arc in the night sky. Four of these planets—Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn—can be seen with the ...

Six planets are visible in the night sky right now. On Feb. 28, Mercury will add a seventh planet to the planetary parade. Venus, Mars and Jupiter are 'great naked-eye targets' for beginning ...

Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye all February long — with two other planets also detectable for skywatchers ...