An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...

In February, six planets will align in the night sky — Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars — and be mostly visible to the naked eye. We find out how to see and more about this ...

Following in the footsteps of Aristotle and Galileo, NASA scientists look to take the next step in understanding auroras.

INDIANAPOLIS — You'll be able to see multiple planets in the night sky from January into February. Dr. Aarran Shaw, director ...

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Panorama of Nearest Galaxy Unveils Hundreds of Millions of Stars On a crisp, clear autumn night, you can see the most distant object visible to the naked eye — the stunning Andromeda Galaxy, our Milky ...

North Texans are in for a celestial treat: This month and until late February, six planets in our solar system will be in alignment in the night sky. A planetary alignment, or as it’s known ...

Also known as a planet parade, six planets will line up in a row across the night sky from about 21 January. Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will be visible to the naked eye and Neptune and Uranus ...

We will be one planet short of a maximum alignment. Six planets will still be possible to see in one ecliptic plane in the southern and eastern night sky, just after sunset: Venus, Mars, Jupiter, ...

A “parade of planets”—Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars—will be visible, and recognizable by their incredible brightness against the night sky. Uranus and Neptune will also be visible, but with a ...

and most can be seen with the naked eye. These planetary hangouts happen when several planets appear to line up in the night sky at once.

Ben Galton-Fenzi is employed by the Australian Antarctic DIvision. Bishakhdatta Gayen is employed by the University of Melbourne. He receives funding from the Australian Research Council.