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

"Mercury is difficult to study because it is a small planet that lies between us and the sun. Most of the time, it is hidden ...

Mercury reaches its peak evening visibility this February, offering Northern Hemisphere observers a longer post-sunset viewing window, higher altitude and a crescent moon reference.

Stargazing in February: Mercury – a planet of extremes - It may look like the Moon, but Mercury has many more secrets, Nigel ...

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.

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

The big astronomical event in February is a rare “planetary parade,” according to NASA. You’ll be able to see Mercury, Venus, ...

Stargazers can see six planets all in one evening during the second month of the year, especially Mercury, which is usually ...

A rare ‘six-planet parade’ is set to light up our skies later month (28th February) with experts revealing exactly how to ...

Mercury has long been cast as the solar system’s burnout case, a small rocky world that cooled quickly and then froze in ...

Watch the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flyby the closest planet to the sun in this set of images captured. It was the 3rd flyby of Mercury for the spacecraft. The music used in the video "was composed ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.