The Latest Breaking News from Solar System

The MESSENGER mission needed a few gravitational assists to enter orbit around the smallest planet.

A new model suggests why some solar systems collect remarkably similar large, rocky worlds.

For the next three weeks, you might be able to catch a glimpse of the comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF). Here's how

A newly discovered comet could be visible to the naked eye as it shoots past the Earth and the Sun in the coming weeks for the first time in 50,000 years.

Back-of-the-envelope math suggests interstellar probes get faster every year.

Comet C/2022 E3 hasn't been seen for 50,000 years, but now's your chance.

The light coming from stars beyond the Milky Way is two to three times brighter than the light from known populations of galaxies – we are even more out there than we thought!

Members of the public will go on a six-day trip around the Moon and back

Hunter households installed rooftop solar and batteries at record rates in the past 18 months in an effort to offset spiralling power prices.

All of the planets in the Milky Way will be visible tonight, with Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn able to be seen with the naked eye with telescopes needed for the others

It’s been an eventful year for space exploration, with successes including the completion of Nasa’s Artemis 1 mission (finally), the inauguration of the James Webb Space Telescope, and the completion of China’s Tiangong space station.