"Textbooks will need to be updated," study co-author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science ...

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. February 3: Uranus stands still Io and its shadow ...

Sunrise and sunset • Sun rises at 7:10 a.m. and sets at 5:21 p.m. on the 1st • Sun rises at 6:36 a.m. and sets at 5:52 p.m. on the 28th Moon’s phases • Full “Snow Moon” on the 1st • New moon on ...

A planet parade is basically the nickname given when the planets in our solar system appear to line up in a roughly straight line from the Earth’s perspective. Just after sunset on 28 February, six of ...

The Moon readies for Artemis II, Orion shines bright, and a planetary parade marches across the night sky NASA’s Artemis II mission has its first opportunity to launch to the moon, Orion the Hunter ...

Explore the visibility of Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn in February 2026. Discover observation dates, locations and details based on Space.com and NASA data.

The Bangladesh Astronomical Association hosted a public astronomy camp in Kalabagan on 31 January, allowing city residents to observe the Moon and Jupiter through a telescope ...

From a rare lunar occultation of Regulus and a six-planet parade to an annular solar eclipse, there will be plenty going on in the night sky in February 2026.

In her second solo exhibition with Pilar Corrias, artist Georg Wilson mines histories of poisonous plants and their medicinal ...

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

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

The event includes hands-on activities, a live planetarium show and, weather permitting, rooftop telescope viewing.