Here’s hoping for clear skies this weekend, It’s shaping up to be a great year for stargazers - many of us have already enjoyed seeing the Northern Lights and the Quadrantid meteor shower. Read more: ...

Who’s ready for a “planet parade”? The last planetary alignment was in August 2025, when six planets aligned and four were bright enough to be seen without a telescope. Next week, Mercury, Venus, ...

A rare alignment of two exoplanets with their star, marking one of the few known exosyzygies, an astronomical event involving celestial bodies outside our solar system, is expected to occur. Despite ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A planet parade — mistakenly called a planetary alignment by ...

A rare celestial occasion will light up the Saturday evening skyline, featuring a bright six-planet parade in a special planetary alignment visible to stargazers. Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, ...

This weekend is the last chance to see any of February’s much-hyped “planet parade” or “planetary parade” before it completely fades from view. While six planets are technically above the horizon ...

On May 13–14, 2026, the Moon will align closely with Saturn, Neptune, and Mars, creating a rare planetary grouping that promises to captivate stargazers worldwide.

Skygazers will have the opportunity to see not one, not two, but six planets in the evening sky on Saturday, February 28, said NASA. Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, and Jupiter will appear ...

Mercury, Saturn, Mars, and Neptune will compactly align in the sky on the morning of April 18 in an event astronomers call a planetary alignment. While the peak viewing hours of the alignment are on ...