The Latest Breaking News from Solar System

One astrophysicist is suggesting we remove Saturn's status as a gas giant, saying the planet tried but didn't quite make the cut.

The serendipitous discovery of an ancient star crashing through a gathering of young, hot stars could help explain the mysterious abundance of isotopes that existed in the early solar system.

The way in which the radiant displays of colors in the sky known as auroras form on Earth may be how these lights arise throughout the solar system, according to new findings from Mercury.

An exoplanet orbiting a young star is carving out spiral arms in the gas and dust that is birthing its planetary system.

Astronomers have discovered more than 5,000 planets outside of the solar system to date. The grand question is whether any of these planets are home to life.

The solar system can be a violent place.

On July 16, 1994, fragments from comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 struck the giant planet Jupiter. The impacts, which ended on July 22, provided for a celestial spectacle. A.S.Ganesh tells you more about the first real-time observation of an extraterrestrial collision in our solar system…

The velocity of interstellar objects passing through our solar system, like 'Oumuamua, can be correlated to their chemistry and the type of star they came from.

The dust, which came from distant stars, is thought to be similar to grains that eventually helped form the planets, including Earth.