Mercury — passes superior conjunction with the sun on Feb. 9 and enters the evening sky. By Feb. 19, only 9 degrees from the sun, Mercury can be seen at magnitude -1.2 with binoculars 20 minutes ...

Four planets will be widely visible to the naked eye through part of February, but calling them a 'planetary alignment' may not be the full picture.

The night sky tonight and on any clear night offers an ... born of the same primordial gas cloud. To the unaided eye, only six of the stars are usually apparent, including their parents Atlas ...

A more compact huddle occurred in the summer of 2022 across the pre-dawn sky. While this parade of planets look to our eyes to be huddled in the evening sky, they are of course spread out across a ...