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.

Solar scientists have found tiny, short-lived jets of energy on our sun to be the primary drivers of the solar wind, marking a step toward better understanding our sun's elusive behavior ...

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 ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...