The Latest Breaking News from Solar System

Researchers trekked for days across Antarctica before finding an unusually large meteorite, that contains some of the oldest material in the solar system

An ancient object that hasn't visited the inner solar system in 50,000 years has gained the attention of stargazers.

Two separate studies recently pointed JWST's instruments at Chariklo, the only asteroid in our Solar System with its own rings.

I think all craters are cool, I’m just going to start with that. I am very biased.

The comet was spotted crashing out of the Oort cloud on the edge of the solar system last year, and is now heading towards the Sun

Rubble pile asteroid is almost as old as the solar system, a sign that it can withstand great shocks and may be difficult to destroy, research suggests

A vast amount of rocks and other material are hurtling around our Solar System as asteroids and comets. If one of these came towards us, could we successfully prevent the collision between an asteroid and Earth?

Travelling from the ocean’s depths to the edge of the solar system, this subtle novel uses the tropes of sci-fi to remind us that there’s no place like our home planet

A recent model suggests that passing interstellar objects should get pulled into our Sun's orbit fairly often.