Humans should look to planetary alignments outside of the solar system when searching for signatures of extraterrestrial communications, scientists say. The nascent search for radio transmissions from ...

Stargazers will revel in a dazzling display as a six "planet parade" dances across the sky on Sunday, Aug. 10. The planetary alignment, casually called a planet parade, occurs when several planets ...

A six-planet parade — sometimes called a planetary alignment — will adorn the pre-sunrise morning sky on Friday, Aug. 22, with four of them visible to the naked eye. Venus, Jupiter and Saturn will be ...

Skywatchers who spotted the Jupiter-Venus conjunction on Aug. 12 are in for a dazzling display in the night sky through the end of August, with a "planet parade" building in the eastern sky, with ...

This article first appeared on Wired.com. On August 10, six planets — Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — will line up in an arc in the night sky. Four of these planets — Mercury, ...

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