The Latest Breaking News from Solar System

Following recent communication issues, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft resorted to a backup radio transmitter that has been inactive since 1981.

A team led by researchers at MIT in the United States has discovered large molecules containing carbon in a distant interstellar cloud of gas and dust.

"You wanted this moment to belong just to yourself and the landscape: sunset on the rim of Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the solar system."

A new analysis of a peculiar metallic cloud surrounding the exoplanet WASP-49 b provides further evidence that it may have been birthed by a volcanic satellite, which may become the first officially recognized "exomoon."

The Orionid meteor shower will peak this week as Earth busts through a stream of meteoroids left in the inner solar system by the famous Halley's comet.

To learn about the potential for life in a hidden ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa, NASA will hunt for plumes and "crop circles."

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope had to race against time to image a young exoplanet before it disappeared for a decade.

Is there anywhere else in our solar system that could support life? If our solar system turns out to be home to two habitable worlds (Europa and Earth), "think of what that means when you extend that result to the billions and billions of other solar systems in this galaxy,"…

NASA plans to send humans on a scientific round trip to Mars potentially as early as 2035.