Watch this video to find out more about the Earth, planets in our Solar System and other planets far off in outer space. From up here on the International Space Station I get a great view of Earth.

Everyone knows about the Solar System, and the planets that make it up. They’re in space, orbiting the Sun, in an order we all at least used to be able to recite. But it was not always so.

Though the planets are always “aligned,” seeing more than four in the sky is more uncommon. February’s lineup is a chance to ...

Through observations, either with space telescopes or with ground-based equipment, we can find out how planets in our solar system and beyond are structured, what materials they are made of, whether ...

In fact, every planet—and every moon—in the solar system will be in the sky during the eclipse. However, that doesn’t mean you’ll see them all. Contrary to what you might have read ...