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

A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only the second human survey of our solar system's innermost planet.

Uranus and Neptune are there too, technically, but they don't appear as 'bright planets'," NASA's Preston Dyches explained in a stargazing video guide. Stock illustration of all the solar system's ...

The planets in our solar system orbit the sun essentially along a line across the sky in a plane called the ecliptic. For that reason, planets in our Earthly sky always appear somewhere along a ...