Six planets are parading across the sky, appearing as some of the night's brightest stars. A few easy tips can help you ...

February brings a rare planetary parade, with five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and Saturn ...

The Winter Solstice, or the December Solstice, is the point at which the path of the sun in the sky is farthest south. At the Winter Solstice, the sun travels the shortest path through the sky ...

The four visible planets, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Venus, will be strung across the evening sky ... always very close to the apparent path of the Sun in the sky also known as the ecliptic.

Exactly 89 days after this month’s new moon on Thursday, January 11 a total solar eclipse will occur across North ... with respect to the path of the sun through the sky (the ecliptic).

it doesn’t climb high because the ecliptic — the apparent path of the Sun across the sky that the planets follow closely — makes a shallow angle to the western horizon after sunset at this ...

In the Northern Hemisphere, the December solstice is the year’s day of least sunlight, when the sun takes its lowest, shortest path across the sky. North of the Arctic Circle, it is the midpoint ...