Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...

The planets of the solar system all move around the same orbital plane, according to National Geographic, so when several planets are on the same side of the sun as Earth, it looks as if they’re ...

However, they are not always in the same direction or sector, but rather scattered all around the solar system at varying positions around the sun. In mid-January, all of the planets are on one side ...

From up here on the International Space Station I get a great view of Earth ... coldest planet in the Solar System. Unlike the other planets, Uranus spins on its side. Neptune is the furthest ...

The night sky throughout the solar system may be full of color ... BepiColombo captured this view of Mercury on 1 October 2021 as the spacecraft flew past the planet ...

This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on slightly different planes. NASA artist’s conception of ...

Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science ... giving us a rare view of a curious mini-moon the space agency called “the reddest object in the solar system” in a statement on May 13.