Alignments of five or more planets are rare—there will be two more featuring five or more planets this year, but after that the next won’t happen until 2040.

You might want to keep your eyes on the skies through next month: Six planets will align in January and February.

A special planetary alignment is occurring in January and February. Four planets are visible to the naked eye, with two more faintly showing. Here's how, where, and when to see the planets line up — ...

An alignment of six planets will dazzle in January 2025. Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will align in the ...

Though the planets are always “aligned,” seeing more than four in the sky is more uncommon. February’s lineup is a chance to ...

“Now, I've heard people talk about how the planets are aligned, well, not really,” explained Utah NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory Ambassador Patrick Wiggins. “If you had a really good ...

We will be one planet short of a maximum alignment. Six planets will still be possible to ... Our unaided human eye can see a maximum of magnitude 6.0. The Hubble Space Telescope can see objects up to ...

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a seven-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

Baker said that there are other astronomical events that may be more interesting than the parade of planets. Baker said Mars ...

We will be one planet short of a maximum alignment. Six planets will still ... Our unaided human eye can see a maximum of magnitude 6.0. The Hubble Space Telescope can see objects up to a ...