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

Claims of a "rare planetary alignment" are misleading; it's just visible planets. A true "golden conjunction" occurs on Sept. 8, 2040.

Throughout February, the five brightest planets - Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury and Saturn - will be visible in the sky ...

These events are often called a planetary alignment, but planets always appear in a line in the sky because they orbit the sun — the difference is that they will appear closer to each other and ...

January and February will see two remarkable planetary alignments, with one of them offering stargazers a chance to witness a celestial spectacle that will not be repeated for another 400 years.