February is ending with a bang as six planets align in the night sky on Saturday. Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will all be visible in the evening sky on Saturday, but you might ...

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This Saturday, February 28, 2026, the evening sky promises an extraordinary astronomical spectacle. Six planets from our Solar System— Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune —will align ...

If you think auroras on Earth are a strange and mesmerizing sight, that's nothing like what occurs on the perplexing world of Uranus.

New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.

A collapsed lava tube detected in 30-year-old radar data from Venus may be part of a much wider network of underground caves.

New observations of Ganymede reveal a striking similarity between the auroras on the largest moon in the solar system and those on Earth. The international team of astrophysicists, led by researchers ...

On Saturday, go outside about an hour after sunset, look to the western sky and spot Mercury, Venus and Saturn close to the horizon.

New observations show a small Saturn moon has generated electromagnetic waves that extend more than 313,000 miles behind it inside Saturn’s magnetic field. That newly measured reach reveals a tiny icy ...

In the early months of 2026, skywatchers around the world will have a rare chance to see six planets lined up in the morning ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...