Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

The four planet-strong "planet parade" currently visible to the naked eye in the night sky for a short time after sunset will ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare alignment of seven planets on 28 February when Mercury joins six other planets that are already visible in the night sky. Here's why it matters to scientists.

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

While it was making those observations, there were a myriad of background stars that also had their light captured incidentally. As with many space telescope missions, Kepler's dataset is open to ...

Uranus and Neptune are there too, technically, but they don't appear as 'bright planets'," NASA's Preston Dyches explained in a stargazing video guide. Stock illustration of all the solar system's ...

With each passing night as, the crescent slowly widens and it begins to appear against a progressively darker background, its ...

Throughout February, so long as clear nights prevail, you’ll be able to see the moon in the night sky along with many of our solar system’s planets. The easiest to spot is Venus, looking ...