Here’s hoping for clear skies this weekend, It’s shaping up to be a great year for stargazers - many of us have already enjoyed seeing the Northern Lights and the Quadrantid meteor shower. Read more: ...

Planet parades are how many stargazers refer to the events when the planets form a straight line and look like they're marching across the night sky. The "planetary parade" in which six planets reach ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. For five consecutive mornings, beginning on Aug. 17, early ...

Who’s ready for a “planet parade”? The last planetary alignment was in August 2025, when six planets aligned and four were bright enough to be seen without a telescope. Next week, Mercury, Venus, ...

Skywatchers who spotted the Jupiter-Venus conjunction on Aug. 12 are in for a dazzling display in the night sky through the end of August, with a "planet parade" building in the eastern sky, with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A planet parade — mistakenly called a planetary alignment by ...

Images of the crescent Moon's meeting with Venus and Jupiter ...

On May 13–14, 2026, the Moon will align closely with Saturn, Neptune, and Mars, creating a rare planetary grouping that ...

Mercury, Saturn, Mars, and Neptune will compactly align in the sky on the morning of April 18 in an event astronomers call a planetary alignment. While the peak viewing hours of the alignment are on ...