The Latest Breaking News from Solar System

The Orionid meteor shower will peak this week as Earth busts through a stream of meteoroids left in the inner solar system by the famous Halley's comet.

To learn about the potential for life in a hidden ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa, NASA will hunt for plumes and "crop circles."

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope had to race against time to image a young exoplanet before it disappeared for a decade.

Is there anywhere else in our solar system that could support life? If our solar system turns out to be home to two habitable worlds (Europa and Earth), "think of what that means when you extend that result to the billions and billions of other solar systems in this galaxy,"…

NASA plans to send humans on a scientific round trip to Mars potentially as early as 2035.

The vital ingredients for life on Earth may have been delivered by meteorites from larger bodies called "planetesimals" in the early solar system. The discovery could assist in the search for alien life.

The human mind may find it difficult to conceptualize: a cosmic cloud so colossal it surrounds the Sun and eight planets as it extends trillions of miles into deep space.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons Pluto probe have teamed up to image the ice giant Uranus, which will help inform future direct imaging of exoplanets.

Here's the winding road NASA's Europa Clipper must take through the Solar System to reach a special Jupiter moon.

Jets of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide gas were seen coming from a centaur, but what drives them is a big mystery.

How to watch "Solar System" online on BBC iPlayer in the UK and from anywhere, as new Brian Cox series shines a light on the 'extraordinary events' in space