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 ...

For the first time since January 2025, six planets will be visible in the sky at once, causing what's commonly known as a "planetary parade." Depending on the configuration, four, five or six planets ...

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 ...

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

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 ...