A planetary parade is a periodic event where multiple planetary bodies sharing a common star appear collectively to an ...

This month will usher in two separate conjunctions — one between the moon and a rarely-visible Mercury, and another between the moon and Mars.

Watch out this month for a Full Moon that barely skims the horizon, a phenomenon that inspired prehistoric astronomers, Nigel Henbest writes ...

The moon crossed the ecliptic — the apparent path of the sun in our sky — less than 7 hours after arriving at full phase on March 14th, ...

This is due to the ecliptic plane, the path along which the planets orbit the sun. What happens after February? The seven-planet alignment ends after Feb. 28 as Saturn moves out of view.

This is due to the ecliptic plane, the path along which the planets orbit the sun. What happens after February? The seven-planet alignment ends after Feb. 28 as Saturn moves out of view. Starting in ...

If stargazers join up Venus, Jupiter and Saturn and Mars with an imaginary line in the sky, this will reveal the ecliptic path that the Sun, Moon and planets all follow.

They will follow the Path of the Ecliptic, setting in the West at dawn. There have also been viewings on Cross Campus with members from the Yale community and beyond. Parker Ellison ’28 volunteered at ...

The planets will appear to stargazers to be in a row along the ecliptic, which is the path followed by the Sun. With the thin waxing crescent moon creating very little light in the sky, ...

Winter officially commences in the Northern Hemisphere on Dec. 21 at 4:21 a.m. when the sun reaches the southernmost position on the ecliptic, its apparent annual path through the zodiac ...