The Latest Breaking News from Solar System

In 2020, China’s Chang'e 5 mission sampled more than a kilogram of Moon rock and soil and brought it back to Earth. The samples contain countless tiny beads of glass, created when asteroids hit the Moon and splashed out droplets of molten rock around the impact site.

Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, mad its closes pass to Earth since 1963 last night, with several stargazers heading outside to catch a glimpse of it

As the world watched NASA complete the globe's first full-scale planetary defence test, few knew the crucial role played by a team on the outskirts of Australia's national capital.

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…

Astronomers now routinely discover planets orbiting stars outside of the solar system – they’re called exoplanets. But in summer 2022, teams working on NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite found a few particularly interesting planets orbiting in the habitable zones of their parent stars.