Many animals change landscapes by acting as ‘ecosystem engineers’. Protecting and restoring nature can help us become more ...

With no need for a satellite dish and HD picture quality included as standard, Sky Stream is fast becoming the default way to watch exclusive channels, sports fixtures, and on-demand boxsets from Sky ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The International Astronomical Union officially recognized 128 new moons orbiting ...

Gas giant WASP-127b has extremely powerful, supersonic winds. Scientists believe it is home to the fastest jetstream in the known universe. Its wind is so fast, at nearly 33,000km per hour, that ...

On Feb. 28, a stellar alignment of planets will illuminate the night sky for the last time in a decade Space Frontiers/Hulton Archive/Getty Calling all stargazers and astronomy enthusiasts ...

On any given night, weather permitting, you can spot at least one bright planet in the sky, and lineups of four or five planets, seen by the naked eye, typically occur every few years, according ...

Most are expected to be visible to the naked eye, though not all seven. The alignment is known as a planet parade — a planetary lineup in space from Earth’s perspective. The alignment takes ...

Picture: iStock Make a date with the night skies this Friday when all seven planets in our solar system will briefly align in what astronomers refer to as the “Great Planet Parade”.

These conjunctions aren't rare, but they do get rarer with each planet added to the chain. The three innermost planets — Mercury, Venus and Earth — align within 3.6 degrees in the sky every 39 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. People look up to the sky from an observatory near the village of Avren, Bulgaria, Aug. 12, 2009. (AP Photo ...

This latest planetary alignment or "planet parade" - set to take place on the evening of Feb. 28, just after dusk, according to SkyatNightMagazine. Once they are all in place, seven of the eight ...

You may recall that Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union. Depending on weather conditions, on most nights there is at least one planet visible.