The Latest Breaking News from Solar System

On Sunday, NASA will finally witness the descent of its first asteroid sample retrieval mission.

Around 15 years ago, I was on a European Space Agency (Esa) committee, looking at Esa’s strategy for proposed forthcoming space missions. Under consideration was a mission to an asteroid. Over dinner, one of the committee members, an astrophysicist, quizzed me on why we needed to visit one of these…

The exoplanet K2-18 b – which is outside the solar system – is 8.6 times as massive as Earth

The discovery was quite interesting because, although such spherules are distributed globally, it is not easy to recover them from the depths of the ocean bed – requiring a dredging operation with a powerful magnet.

As space mining and colonization become not-so-distant realities, scientists say preservation should be prioritized

‘None of the evidence’ presented is ‘sufficiently convincing’ to infer they are from outside the Solar System

The "world's leading alien hunter" on his new book and his relentless search for extraterrestrial objects

Avi Loeb, an astrophysicist at Harvard University in the US, has published a press release claiming that some of the 700 or so spherical metallic fragments (spherules) he recovered from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, just off the coast of Papua New Guinea, are from beyond the Solar System.

A recent study proposes a totally different version of Planet Nine, but which one is really out there?