Astronomers have made an unexpected and groundbreaking discovery in our solar system—a ring system forming around Chiron, a ...

In a remarkable development, NASA has confirmed the detection of a mysterious object entering our solar system, classifying it as a visitor from interstellar space. This revelation, made in 2025, ...

There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

While Saturn 's magnificent rings, spanning 175,000 miles (280,000 kilometres), are a familiar celestial marvel, scientists ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

A team of astronomers has attempted to track the path of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS back into the past, tracing its path ...

The discovery of ancient water in a planet-forming disk reveals that some of the water found in comets—and maybe even ...

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...

NASA is set to launch three spacecrafts Tuesday with the goal of unlocking the mysteries of solar weather at the edge of our solar system.

Asteroid ‘Families’ Reveal Hidden Histories and Impact Risks across the Solar System ...

From GPS to innovations in computing and optics, technologies developed for space research at UC Santa Cruz touch nearly ...

We all need some space sometimes—but it's harder to find than you might think. How far into our universe do we have to go to ...