January is a good month for interesting planetary alignment. You will have a lot going on in the night sky. For most of the month, six out of the eight planets will be visible in the heavens. Mercury ...

Each evening, enjoy a sweeping view of four planets at once. Also look for Mars occulted by the Moon and meteors!

Help JoJo put the planets in the correct order staring with the closest to the Sun. Watch the video to help you before starting the quiz. BBC Homepage Skip to content ...

Hiding just six light-years away from our solar system, an exoplanet has been revealed to be orbiting the closest single star ...

Narrator: As the solar system grew, four rocky planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, were created closest to the Sun. Made of rocks and metals, they have solid surfaces and a central core of ...

On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe became the nearest spacecraft to the sun, flying within a few million miles of the ...

Start looking for Venus about ... Saturn and Mars could also be visible.” The planets' positions during totality on April 8. The closest planet to the sun during the eclipse—and almost always ...