While scientists are still trying to confirm Planet Nine's existence, NASA says proving that this ice giant is real would help astronomers explain several mysteries within our solar system.

Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these ...

Officially named 3I/ATLAS, the comet was confirmed as having originated outside of Earth's solar system on July 3, according ...

Solar System Planets. Astronomy articles on the eight planets, plus the two dwarf planets, Pluto and Eris. Great pictures of everything in the solar system. Updated daily.

The Voyager 1 probe has been playing the real-life version of this. Launched on September 5th, 1977, the spacecraft reached Neptune, the outer sentinel of the Solar System, over a decade later.

For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.

What will happen to the solar system when the Sun dies? It might be the end of planet Earth, but life could still find a way.

Recently, a group of scientists claimed they found possible signs of life on a planet called K2-18b. The news made headlines. Researchers said they'd detected sulphur-based gases that, on Earth ...

Though it’s the most unlikely home for life imaginable in the solar system, NASA is sending two missions to Venus to look for clues.

Recent research has raised the tantalizing prospect that our Solar System, in which we thought we were alone, may be dotted with diverse, and deeply weird, homes for life.

Related: Why isn't Earth perfectly round? Davis agreed that most life on Earth would not survive this cataclysmic move away from the solar system. "If Earth were to leave the solar system, it's very ...

While not a detection of life itself, this study shows that the Solar System may have been far more conducive to life in its distant past then we previously believed.