Look up at the night sky during November to catch Saturn and Neptune shining brightly together high in the southern sky.

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Neptune, the most distant planet in the solar system, just completed its first trip around the sun since its discovery in 1846 and will reach a point in its orbit called opposition on Monday (Aug. 22) ...

Friday, May 2, presents a perfect opportunity to catch the mighty ice giant Neptune close to the planets Saturn and Venus in the pre-dawn sky, before they break their close-knit formation later in the ...

The half-lit lunar disk will rise alongside the ringed giant Saturn and dimmer Neptune in the early morning hours of June 19, putting on a spectacular show just six hours after the moon hits its third ...

September offers various celestial events, including Saturn and Neptune's oppositions, Mars's approach to solar conjunction, and favorable viewing of Uranus and Jupiter. Multiple transits of Saturn's ...

It's been one Neptunian year—or about 165 Earth years—since astronomers first observed the most distant planet from the sun.

April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations and people take action to raise awareness of an inevitable aspect of ...

Nearly a century after Pluto’s discovery, astronomers are still hunting for mysterious planets beyond Neptune - including a ...