The Latest Breaking News from our Solar System

In the outer reaches of our Solar System, 5.7 billion kilometres from the Sun, lies the dwarf planet Pluto. Smaller than Australia, it is an icy world of mountains, glaciers and craters where the average temperature is –232°C.

Apart from the Sun, its planets and their moons, our Solar System has vast amounts of space rocks – fragments left over from the formation of the inner planets.

Europa and other ocean worlds in our solar system have recently attracted much attention.

Fragments of extinct solar systems and planets could be visiting us regularly — these scientists think they know how to find them.

Two interstellar asteroids or comets have swept into our Solar System that we know of. The Vera Rubin Observatory could be key to finding so many more.

Asteroids are chunks of rock left over from the formation of our Solar System. Approximately half a billion asteroids with sizes greater than four metres in diameter orbit the Sun, travelling through our Solar System at speeds up to about 30 kilometres per second – about the same speed as…

The search for planets outside our Solar System – exoplanets – is one of the most rapidly growing fields in astronomy. Over the past few decades, more than 5,000 exoplanets have been detected and astronomers now estimate that on average there is at least one planet per star in our…

If there's life on other planets in our Solar System, several recent studies suggest it could turn up in some really bizarre places.

The explosion – AT2021lwx – is a fireball 100 times the size of our Solar System and 10 times brighter than a supernova.