The Latest Breaking News from Solar System

NASA's OSIRIS-Rex mission will drop a capsule of pristine asteroid material in the Utah desert on September 24. The astro-material may provide insights into how planets formed, what materials were present in the early Solar System, and how life on the earth began. OSIRIS-Rex had to precisely choreograph a celestial…

But like a college kid dropping off their laundry, the spaceship is just passing through on its way to another adventure.

Discovery adds weight to view that Europa’s ocean could be most promising place in solar system to look for alien life

As far as we know, there is exactly one planet in our Solar System – and the galaxy – which hosts life. And you’re on it.

NASA will soon launch a spacecraft to the bizarre asteroid Psyche to better understand how it formed and why it's still here.

Of all the objects in the Solar System, perhaps the most spectacular are the great comets that occasionally grace our skies. If you’ve been on social media in the past few days, you’ve probably seen articles proclaiming we have such a comet in our skies right now: C/2023 P1 (Nishimura).

The exoplanet K2-18 b – which is outside the solar system – is 8.6 times as massive as Earth

The discovery was quite interesting because, although such spherules are distributed globally, it is not easy to recover them from the depths of the ocean bed – requiring a dredging operation with a powerful magnet.

As space mining and colonization become not-so-distant realities, scientists say preservation should be prioritized