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.

Over the last ten years, OPAL has observed Uranus' northern hemisphere, which has faced the inner solar system for the ...

You may need binoculars or a telescope for this one. It includes the three furthest planets in our solar system. There will be six planets visible this time around, including Venus, Mars ...

What if I told you our solar system had another mysterious planet? It’s not a terribly new concept, but as our telescopic technology gets better we’re finding more evidence that another planet might ...

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In the next decade, researchers will start probing the atmosphere of planets as small as Earth and Venus orbiting nearby stars. But although these two solar system planets are similar in size and ...

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 ...

Ever since William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, astronomers have been eager to find new planets on the outer edge of the solar system. But after the discovery of Neptune in 1846 ...

The largest celestial bodies in our solar system that still exist—massive asteroids and minor planets—are thought to be the last vestiges of this era of planetary formation. This is the period ...