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Six-Planet Alignment Peaks Feb. 28 With Mercury Best Spotted This Weekend

Most viewers will catch bright Jupiter, as fainter planets typically require binoculars or a telescope.

Crescent Moon Brushes Past Saturn Tonight, With Neptune Nearby

Saturn’s Close Pass With a Half‑Lit Moon Highlights Its Stationary Pause as Mercury Turns Direct

Last Quarter Moon Draws Close to Jupiter Overnight in Easy Sky Show

Saturn Reaches Opposition, Brightest and Closest of 2025

Rare Dawn Conjunction of the Moon, Venus and Regulus Thrills Early Risers on Sept. 19

Moon Brushes Past Saturn as Pre-Dawn Five-Planet Parade Continues

8% Crescent Moon Meets Mars Low in the West Tonight

Crescent Moon Joins Ongoing Six-Planet Pre-Dawn Parade

Venus and Jupiter Coincide in Dawn Sky as Six-Planet Parade Unfolds

Venus and Jupiter to Converge Under One Degree on August 12 Pre-Dawn Sky

Moonlight Set to Dampen This Year’s Perseid Meteor Shower Peak

Earth’s Aphelion and Mercury’s Greatest Elongation Usher in July’s Night Sky Highlights