Four planets should appear aligned in the early morning sky next week, but get ready to see this before the sun rises. On the morning of April 17, Mercury, Venus, Neptune and Saturn will take part ...

Neptune is the dimmest of the four, with a magnitude of 7.9. A celestial object’s stellar magnitude describes how bright that object looks in the night sky, with the brightest stars being seen ...

Time to roll out your picnic blanket and unfold those lawn chairs: A meteor shower is set to streak across the (very) early morning sky on May 6. The annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower is expected ...