Six planets are part of the alignment, which will last until Feb. 18. Mercury will join the alignment later in the month.

NASA said the system is thought to be moving at least 1.2 million miler per hour, nearly twice as fast as our solar system.

Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...

While our solar system is a fascinating place on its own, exoplanets are even more of a mystery. And one exoplanet in particular is something quite new.

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

The four-planet lineup that began in January concludes by mid- to late February, as Saturn sinks increasingly lower in the ...

The solar system is portrayed as a dynamic, gossip-fueled family, with each planet offering snide comments about one another, ...

Dr. Jane Huang's research on planet formation in harsh environments, particularly within the Sigma Orionis cluster, offers ...

Four planets will be widely visible to the naked eye through part of February, but calling them a 'planetary alignment' may not be the full picture.

Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...

To better understand why the planets have variable compositions ... to the formation of the gas and ice giants in the outer solar system. This first-order model of planetary growth in the solar ...