The Latest Breaking News from Solar System

Discovered by research teams at UCL and Cambridge, the ice could exist inside the ice moons of the outer solar system

Illustris TNG simulation shows that the Milky Way is special, all thanks to a cosmic wall.

Astronomers have discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter, putting the total count at a record-breaking 92

Using a device that might be described as a super-duper cocktail shaker, scientists have fashioned a previously unknown form of ice - one that might exist on our solar system's icy moons - in research that sheds light on water's behavior under extreme conditions. The researchers said they employed a…

Over the past few weeks, social media has been abuzz with excited posts about the green comet that is currently “whizzing” or “flying through the sky”.

A huge 3.7 mile-wide comet hurtling towards the sun is believed to have come from another solar system and has been described by a leading astronomer as 'weird'

Scientists say Machholz 1 has origins in another solar system

A new idea proposed by researchers from UCLA envisions a twist on the beam-sail idea: a pellet-beam concept that could accelerate a 1-ton spacecraft to the edge of the Solar System in less than 20 years.

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.

There are hundreds of millions of asteroids in our Solar System, which means new asteroids are discovered quite frequently. It also means close encounters between asteroids and Earth are fairly common.