I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

In a celestial event known as a great alignment the five planets will be discernible with the naked eye, but to see Neptune ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has spotted the most powerful volcanic eruption ever seen on the solar system's most volcanic body, ...

NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants ...

Even for Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic body ... hotspot region of Io estimated to be larger than Lake Superior on Earth. The currently unnamed region is so powerful that the energy it ...

February brings a rare planetary parade, with five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and Saturn ...

Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...

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Planetary alignments aren't rare, but they can be when they involve six of the eight planets in our solar system.

Four planets will be in the parade in January while seven will align in February. Here's how to see the events.

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...