Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

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

New images of the planet Mercury taken by a robotic spacecraft have just been released — and they show the scorched world in fascinating up-close detail. SEE ALSO: Is Mercury in retrograde?

planet. Processing by citizen scientist Brian Swift. NASA’s $1.1 billion Juno spacecraft has sent back another spectacular batch of images following its landmark 50th orbit of the giant planet.

The perception of Neptune as much darker and bluer than Uranus was "cemented" when pictures were sent back by the Voyager 2 probe after it flew by the two planets in 1986 and 1989, said The Times.

Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn, and Venus – this month has sky photographers abuzz. While astronomers flock to places ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft captured the photographs during its last flyby of Mercury, a maneuver necessary to propel the mission into orbit around the planet ... The images, which reveal the ...

A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only the second human survey of our solar system's innermost planet.