The Latest Breaking News from Solar System

The James Webb telescope has focused its attention on an oddball space rock lurking between Jupiter and Neptune. The unusual "centaur," named 2060 Chiron, has features of both comets and asteroids.

Your guide to viewing the visible planets of the solar system in the night sky of 2025.

An object that orbits in the space between Jupiter and Neptune has chemistry that could tell us more about the birth of the solar system.

As a kid, it was tough for me to grasp the massive time scale of Earth’s history. Now, with nearly two decades of experience as a geologist, I think one of the best ways to understand our planet’s history and evolution is by condensing the entire timeline into a single…

The water that makes up the oceans acted as a key ingredient for the development of life on Earth. However, scientists still do not know where the water here on Earth came from in the first place.

Just as Homo sapiens once exploded out of Africa to colonize the Earth our influence is spreading in the solar system. New research says we must track the cosmic migration to Mars.

Dark comets are comets that are so small, fast and/or chemically rare that they are difficult to see from Earth

Io is the most volcanically active world in our solar system. Now, NASA scientists have revealed how and why.

Saturn's rings might not be younger than the dinosaurs as recently suggested, but nearly as old as the giant planet itself at billions of years in age, a new study says.

In 2017, NASA discovered and later confirmed the first interstellar object to enter our Solar System.

By doubling the number of known "dark comets," astronomers have been able to split them into two camps depending on their location in the solar system.