The Latest Breaking News from Solar System

This month, we’ll enjoy a display of Orionid meteors, writes Nigel Henbest

The Draconids may not be as prolific as some meteors but they are fascinating none-the-less.

On September 26 at 11.15pm UTC, NASA’s DART mission (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) will be the first to deliberately and measurably change the motion of a significant body in our Solar System. In other words, it will smash into an asteroid.

It has already been experienced by over 300,000 people in Derry, Belfast and Cambridge to date

The Our Place in Space 8k trail will begin on Church Street and run all the way to Otterspool

He brought his math Ph.D. (and his solar system tie) to the House. Now Rep. Jerry McNerney is planning his next AI chapter.

NASA has released its first image of Neptune captured by the James Webb Space Telescope as it shows off its capabilities within our home solar system.

Resonance with not-so-near Neptune destabilized the moon 100 million years ago.

Since 2018, NASA’s InSight mission to Mars has recorded seismic waves from more than 1,300 marsquakes in its quest to probe the internal structure of the red planet. The solar panels of the car-sized robotic lander have become caked with Martian dust, and NASA scientists expect it will completely power…