Two NASA spacecraft have teamed up to capture direct images of Uranus. The Hubble Space Telescope and the New Horizons Pluto probe formed a cool tag team to investigate the mysterious seventh planet ...

Pluto's days, though they drag on a bit at around 153 hours, are nothing compared to its years. Pluto's orbit takes 248 Earth ...

The summer season is wrapping up as September takes hold and introduces the fall equinox, but not before kicking off the month with a few notable planetary aspects for interested sky watchers. During ...

The Outer planets have been vacillating indecisively, shifting in and out of new signs (Retrograding). However, the Outer ...

In several previous columns I have addressed the transiting “little triangle” involving the four outer planets: Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. This is a very rare alignment. One way to interpret a ...

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Many Americans grew up with this as the definitive planetary lineup and created clever mnemonic devices to memorize them in ...

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