This week presents a celestial spectacle for Scots as seven of the eight planets in our solar system will align ...

A rare celestial event, the "planetary parade," has been captured in a single photograph by UK-based photographer Josh Dury.

Everybody loves a parade. Most people who live in chillier climes aren’t exactly rejoicing when February rolls around — but this year, watchers of the night sky have been positively ecstatic over a ...

"Seven (arguably, 8) is a feat that to my prior knowledge has not been achieved before," Dury told Live Science in an email — ...

According to NASA, multi-planet lineups are visible "every few years," but a seven-planet alignment is particularly uncommon, as each planet's orbit varies, with some moving more quickly and Mercury, ...

Another finding was how dramatically the planets varied in brightness over just three years. The team discovered that PDS 70 ...

An alignment of seven planets will appear, whether by the naked eye or with the use of a telescope, this month in the U.S. Here's how to spot it.

With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might ...

Astronomers using a cutting-edge adaptive optics instrument, MagAO-X, have captured unprecedented images of young planets ...