Look east before dawn on Wednesday, Aug. 14, to see the giant planet and the Red Planet just a third of a degree from one another in a rare planetary conjunction.

While you’re trained on Jupiter for its conjunction with Mars, watch a triple event as the shadows of Io and Europa, as well as Io itself, cross the planet’s disk. Not shown are Ganymede to ...

The four-planet conjunction will reach its peak visibility in mid-January 2025. Check local astronomical forecasts for exact timings, as the event will be most prominent shortly after sunset. 2.

Mark your calendars, place your bets, grease your palms, blink open that third eye, and ready your wishes, my babies ...

Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the ...

Jupiter and Venus will appear very close together in the night sky on Wednesday, with the two planets set to pass each other in what’s known as a conjunction.

Jupiter and Venus, the two brightest planets in our solar system, will appear to be right next to each other to start March. ... The conjunction will happen on the night of March 1 into March 2.

The five planets are visible all at once only every 18 years. But this year’s Grand Conjunction is even more special, and something we haven’t seen since the 1950s, states Slisher.

Rare it may be, but thanks to Mercury’s swift orbit around the Sun (it takes just 88 days to round our star) there will also be a triple conjunction of the same three planets in February.

A 'triple conjunction' between Mercury, Jupiter and the Moon will dominate the post-sunset skies ...More this week. Here's an image of Venus and Jupiter along with the Moon over ESO’s Very Large ...

Historians and astronomers have wondered for years whether that "star," which appeared over 2,000 years ago, could have been a similar conjunction between two planets. Indeed, this year's ...