The Latest Breaking News from Solar System

It had been previously thought that planets only form once a star has reached its final size.

They bring information about their parent asteroids and comets — and the solar system's history.

What would happen if the world split in half? – Ronan, age 5, Melbourne

The sun's glare appears to have been hiding a secret - a trio of space rocks that could one day be hazardous to the planet, including the largest found in eight years

They are notoriously difficult to spot

This spacecraft got a good look at Earth on its way to Jupiter.

The study of exoplanets, worlds which orbit stars other than our sun, is currently being transformed by the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). We will shortly gain our first insight into conditions on rocky, potentially Earth-like worlds beyond our solar system. One of these distant worlds might host life.…

A Planetary Scientist from the Natural History Museum has told Tech & Science Daily new data suggests a meteorite sample at the museum may be from the very beginnings of our solar system.

A trio of new papers reports new evidence an asteroid's parent formed far on the outskirts of the solar system.