The Latest Breaking News from the Solar System

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.

In new research published in Nature Communications, scientists analysed lead and uranium isotopes in Erg Chech 002 and calculated it is some 4.56556 billion years old, give or take 120,000 years

Avi Loeb, a physicist from Harvard University in the US, has recovered 50 tiny spherical iron fragments from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that he claims may be material from an interstellar alien spaceship.

Impact cratering happens on every solid body in the Solar System. In fact, it is the dominant process affecting the surfaces on most extraterrestrial bodies today.

Astrobiologists seeking out alien life in the Solar System may benefit from a new mission exploring hydrothermal vents in Earth's oceans.

Saturn's rings are the planet's most distinguishing feature, but they're a recent addition to the Solar System — and are already disappearing.

Could we discover conditions necessary for life outside the Earth in the solar system?

Europe's JUICE and NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will soon launch to Jupiter to study its icy and possibly habitable moons.

The Pioneer 11 probe would serve as a metaphorical blueprint for the Voyager missions.