The Latest Breaking News from Solar System

Planet’s ‘tail’ is millions of miles long, researchers say

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and Laura Joy Pieters of the London Science Museum give a guided tour of our home system.

Astrophysics team say observation of chemical compounds may be ‘tipping point’ in search for extraterrestrial life

The planet may be orbiting two brown dwarfs, or ‘failed stars’

In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast moving body using the world’s most powerful telescopes. It was found to be one quarter mile (400m) long and very elongated – perhaps 10 times as long as it was…

Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites – ancient rocks that travel through space and survive a fiery plunge through Earth’s atmosphere. Among meteorites, one type – called carbonaceous chondrites – stands out as the most primitive and provides a unique glimpse into the…

The sun was caught bursting out a huge quantity of helium-3, an isotope that's scarce in our solar system.

A nearby Earth-sized planet beyond our solar system could soon add to the diversity of known terrestrial worlds with their own "air."

A trip to planets outside our solar system could tell scientists a lot — even if no extraterrestrial life is found