All of the planets, as well as the sun and moon, appear to travel along this path in the sky. Currently rising in the east as the sun sets in the west is Mars, which on Jan. 12 reached ...

Stargazers can also glimpse a full moon and a bright Venus during cloudless nights in the middle of the month. Once the sun goes down on Monday, Feb. 3, six planets and the moon will line up ...

The planets in our solar system orbit the sun in more or less the same flat plane as the Earth, according to EarthSky.org, called the ecliptic. The celestial bodies near us, the sun and the moon ...