This year, there seems to be a powerful group of watches celebrating milestone birthdays. With the lucky number five rounding ...

Earth is our home planet, and it's the only place in the universe where we know for certain that life exists. Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago from a swirling cloud of gas and dust squished ...

The planet parade will begin to wane as spring arrives, and while the planets are still visible at the end of February, the increasing daylight hours may make it slightly harder to see the parade ...

These conjunctions aren't rare, but they do get rarer with each planet added to the chain. The three innermost planets — Mercury, Venus and Earth — align within 3.6 degrees in the sky every 39 ...

Find a Dark Location: Head away from city lights to maximise visibility. Use Binoculars or a Telescope: While some planets can be seen with the naked eye, optical aids will enhance the experience.

On Feb. 28, a stellar alignment of planets will illuminate the night sky for the last time in a decade Space Frontiers/Hulton Archive/Getty Calling all stargazers and astronomy enthusiasts ...

Online chatter and a frenzy of media coverage has tended to make a big deal of allegedly rare "planetary alignments" and "planet parades" gracing our night skies. The hoopla has culminated this ...

Skygazers have something to look forward to Friday night, as the seven other planets in our solar system will be visible, with a little help, in a rare event. This event is known as an alignment. The ...

To see the full "planet parade," you'll need some binoculars or a telescope. Saturn will be the most difficult planet to spot due to its low position — appearing less than 10 degrees above the ...

Around the end of the month, Saturn will slip below the horizon and into daytime skies, ending the seven-planet parade. But stargazers will get another chance to see a planetary alignment in ...

The Treasure of Villena, as the cache of 66 mostly gold objects is known, was discovered more than 60 years ago in 1963 in what is now Alicante in Spain, and has since come to be regarded as one of ...