February brings a rare planetary parade, with five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and Saturn on Feb. 24. Throughout February, a striking gathering of the five ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

So-called planetary parades are not super rare, according to NASA, but they don't happen every year. There was planetary parade in June 2024 when six planets — Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus ...

In January 2025, a rare planetary parade featuring Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, and Venus delighted sky watchers in the US and UK. This event, not expected to re-occur for 400 years ...

Here’s how it works. Four bright planets are visible together in the night sky this month in what NASA calls a "planetary parade" that is a must-see for stargazers. Venus, Mars, Jupiter and ...

Great news for anyone with a planetary parade on their skywatching bucket list: The rare astronomical phenomenon involving multiple planets aligning in the night skies is currently visible to the ...

But whereas our solar system developed with gas giants far from our sun, some planetary systems consist of so-called 'hot—or even ... It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to ...