This month's The Sky Above features astronomical events happening this month, including a parade of planets and a local ...

Six planets will appear to align in a rare "planetary parade," with February 28 marking when they appear closest together.

Most of the time, the shape of Earth’s magnetic field is quite similar to that which would be produced by a bar magnet aligned with the planet’s rotation axis. This is what makes a magnetic compass ...

Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter will appear together shortly after sunset on Feb. 28 — but is this the ...

More than 2,500 plant species have the potential to invade the Arctic at the expense of the species that belong there. Norway is one of the areas that is particularly at risk.

A newly identified Earth-sized exoplanet with a year-long orbit may lie near its star’s habitable zone, but extreme cold could limit its chances of hosting liquid water.

From a planetary parade, the Orion constellation and the Artemis II mission set to launch, there are multiple skywatching ...

We’re kicking off the month with a big release. This full moon is all about finding common ground between the self and others ...

From dazzling Jupiter high in the evening sky to elusive Mercury low at sunset, February 2026 offers one of the year's best ...

Regulus — also called Alpha Leonis — is one of the brightest stars in the night sky. The brightest star in the constellation ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

Beneath Venus’s scorched surface, scientists may have found something massive—and it could rewrite planetary history.