"There is something special about looking at the planets with your own eyes," says Jenifer Millard, a science communicator ... TV premieres from around the globe, complete with appearances from ...

six planets—Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—will be visible simultaneously in the sky, and their alignment will be easily visible from almost all parts of the globe.

There are eight planets in the solar system ... an astronomer at the University of Hawaii, told Live Science. "But it's not — instead, the side of Mercury facing the sun is ultrahot, and ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in 160,000 years, as it lit up the night skies across the globe.