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Six planets will line up in a rare "planetary parade" this month - but spotting them all won't be easy.

The planet Venus (magnitude -3.9) is in close proximity (1.4° southwest) to the Beehive Cluster (M44, magnitude 3.1) in the constellation Cancer, observable in the pre-dawn eastern sky. While M44 is ...

A hidden population of asteroids sharing Venus' orbit could threaten Earth in a few thousand years, and we might not even see them coming without better telescopes. These so-called Venus co-orbital ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you were up early enough on Friday, Sept. 19, you may have noticed the bright star shining next to the crescent moon in the ...

The Beehive Cluster is an open cluster in the constellation Cancer. It is one of the nearest open clusters to the Solar System, and it contains a larger star population than most other nearby clusters ...

The moon-planet-star trio are among the brightest objects in our solar system, meaning the impending conjunction should be incredibly easy to spot. A conjunction is an astronomical event in which at ...

Skywatchers have the opportunity to witness history today (June 5), as the planet Venus rambles across the face of the sun in a rare event that will not be visible again for 105 years. Astronomers ...