The Latest Breaking News from Solar System

A common type of planet (that our Solar System is surprisingly lacking), hot Jupiters don’t last long in their close-in orbits.

Kuiper Belt objects are some of the last remaining unexplored objects in the universe. Finding them has proved incredibly difficult.

Remnants of ancient planet that formed Moon found buried deep inside Earth, reveals new study.

For centuries, the quest for new elements was a driving force in many scientific disciplines. Understanding an atom’s structure and the development of nuclear science allowed scientists to accomplish the old goal of alchemists – turning one element into another.

The moon is about 40 million years older than previously thought - forming more than 4.46 billion years ago, within 110 million years after the solar system’s birth

The ongoing mission will visit its first asteroid, Dinkinesh, to prepare for its journey toward the Trojan asteroids near Jupiter.

A new paper out this week makes the case that gas giants forming in the outer part of solar systems aren't unusual.

Psyche was the Greek goddess of the soul, born a mere mortal and later married to Eros, the God of love. Who knows why the Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis gave her name to a celestial object he observed one night in 1852?

A new NASA mission is successfully heading to a metal-rich object that may be a remnant of an ancient collision.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flew by Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, dropping off its sample of dust and pebbles gathered from the surface of near-Earth asteroid Bennu.

When you hear the word comet, you might imagine a bright streak moving across the sky. You may have a family member who saw a comet before you were born, or you may have seen one yourself when comet Nishimura passed by Earth in September 2023. But what are these…