From a rare lunar occultation of Regulus and a six-planet parade to an annular solar eclipse, there will be plenty going on in the night sky in February 2026.

Mercury, Venus, and Saturn put on an early-evening display in the west, while Jupiter dominates the rest of the night.

Many objects in space rotate. Earth completes a spin in roughly 24 hours, while Venus takes a whopping 243 Earth days. The moon's rotational period is about 27 days. The sun, it turns out, also ...

February starts with a subtle surprise just after sunset Feb. 2. Jupiter is blazing away about one-third of the way to the ...

The Venus in Aquarius transit is rolling in hot at the start of February 2026, and this cosmic shift isn’t here to play chill. The Venus transit in Aquarius can spark surprises, shake up relationships ...

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.

The month is packed with skywatching highlights—including six visible planets, an annular solar eclipse, and the Milky Way’s bright core returning to view in the Northern Hemisphere.

During a special observation run from Jan. 15 to Jan. 22, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite ( TESS) repeatedly ...

Tennis superstar Serena Williams joins TODAY's Jenna Bush Hager and Sheinelle Jones to talk about her new Prime Video docuseries called “The CEO Club” which highlights female leaders. She also opens ...

Venus looks like Earth’s twin at first glance, yet its rotation behaves like a cosmic prank. The planet spins backward, ...

The dazzling lights of the aurora are created when high-energy particles from space collide with Earth's atmosphere. While ...

Venus could experience a dramatic meteor shower this summer, the result of the breaking apart of a nearby asteroid that has ...