The Latest Breaking News from Solar System

Astronomers detect molecules transformed by sunlight in the atmosphere of an alien planet outside our Solar System for the first time.

Most meteorites are missing flight data. Not so with the Winchcombe meteorite, whose fireball awed hundreds of people in 2021 and revealed its ancient past.

Triton may be an ‘ocean world’, a moon that has a solid ice crust over a liquid water subsurface ocean, which extend the habitable zone to the Kuiper Belt, not just the inner solar system.

Most of the worlds of our Solar System are pockmarked with impact craters. These bear testament to the violence of the early days of the Sun, when asteroids, comets and entire planets routinely collided with and annihilated each other.

Martian meteorites found their way to Earth. In turn, they bore a chemical that has the secret to how much water was on ancient Mars.

The Leonids, made of debris from 55P/Tempel–Tuttle, become a storm once every 33 years or show. It won't happen this year, but still should put on a spectacular show.

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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.

Four billion years ago, the solar system was still young. Almost fully formed, its planets were starting to experience asteroid strikes a little less frequently. Our own planet could have become habitable as long as 3.9 billion years ago, but its primitive biosphere was much different than it is today. Life…

The asteroid is almost one mile long, meaning that it would cause an extinction event if it hit Earth