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.

We typically think of the Oort cloud as scattered ice balls floating far from the sun, yet still tied to it gravitationally.

This solar system consists of four inner rocky planets and four outer gas giant planets as well as an asteroid belt, containing thousands of huge rocks, dwarf planets and comets. Our solar system ...

Using computer models of the four outer planets, the team carried out 50,000 ... had the planet-like object swooping through the inner solar system, the researchers created an additional 10,000 ...

In the paper, the researchers describe how they modeled the orbits of the four outer planets and performed ... which plunged deep into the inner solar system as it traveled.

Onward and outward, Jupiter rides high to the south in Taurus the Bull at dusk. The waxing near First Quarter Moon meets ...

The discovery of two new planets beyond our solar system by a team of astronomers ... The existence of these two exoplanets - an inner super-Earth and an outer icy giant planet - within the ...

Many of these near-match scenarios had the object zooming through the inner solar system, which prompted the researchers to add the terrestrial planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars — into ...