These linkups happen when several planets appear to line up in the night sky at once. Such parades are fairly common, happening roughly every year depending on the number of planets. At least one bright planet can be spotted on most nights, weather permitting, according to NASA.

This rare planetary alignment will be visible from August 10 but will be best viewed later in the month. Here’s everything you need to know to see it at its best.

How do tidal forces shape a planet's orbital evolution, especially for those in the habitable zone? A recently submitted study aims to answer this question, as an international team of researchers investigated how tidal forces far stronger than those on Earth could influence the orbits of habitable zone planets with highly eccentric paths around low-mass stars.

But it’s not just looks. Rocky composition, general size, orbital behaviors—a lot of those qualities can be the same on both planets and moons. And on the flip side, they can be very different between planets. For instance, our little rocky Earth is a lot more like the Moon than it is, say, Saturn or Uranus.

Wondering what planets are visible right now? Jupiter and Venus are meeting up in the sky, at least from our vantage point.

While most of the planets will be visible to the naked eye, others will require special equipment to be spotted.

Reaching the darkest depths of the sea was important because of how scientists, including Campbell, believe that life may exist below the icy surface of seas on other planets. In recent years, experts have turned their attention to Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, where evidence may point to a deep sea lurking beneath an icy shell.

In recent years, JWST has revealed a fascinating class of never-before-seen objects, just hanging out in crowded, nebular regions of space. They're called free-floating planetary-mass objects, or FFPMOs, and they're exactly what they sound like: objects with a mass up to 10 Jupiters hanging around all loosey-goosey.