The Latest Breaking News from Solar System

NASA's Osiris-REx mission has successfully returned a pristine sample of asteroid back to Earth. This cupful-or-so of space rock could shed light on the solar system's origins.

In recent years, scientists have investigated the possibility of using quantum principles to enable next-generation astronomy.

How do planets form? For many years scientists thought they understood this process by studying the one example we had access to: our own Solar System.

This could change how we view icy worlds in the outer Solar System.

Pluto, the Solar System’s largest dwarf planet, just became even more interesting with a report that icy lava flows have recently covered substantial tracts of its surface. In this context, “recently” means probably no more than a billion years ago. That’s old, of course – and there is no suggestion…

Humanity has barely scratched the surface when it comes to cosmic exploration, including our backyard. Self-replicating robots could reveal more about humanity's closest neighbors.

These rocks and dust were collected more than 50 years ago during the Apollo missions. Now, NASA is finally cracking them open to study the Moon and Earth.

Io and Europa creep into a shot from the Juno probe.

In this edition of Inverse Daily, decide if you would like to live on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, learn about magnetic nanobots that eat pollution, and more.