From scorching planets to frozen giants, our solar system is full of extremes. Discover the forces that shaped these worlds and what they reveal about our place in the universe.

Japan's space agency, JAXA, has been knocking it out of the park with small-body exploration missions for decades. They had ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket pierced the Wednesday morning sky as it launched three spacecraft from NASA and NOAA that will study the solar system’s “bubble,” collect information on ...

The National Air and Space Museum’s Virginia location now displays the objects which represent critical leaps forward in ...

Artemis is headed for Earth’s moon, but thanks to the Hanford Reach Solar System, Uranus, Saturn and even Neptune are in your ...

Planets around other stars can help answer one of the greatest mysteries: How did we get here? How did the spinning disk of material left behind by our sun’s birth form our planet and its seven ...

The standard story of the origin of our solar system has gone like this: 4.6 billion years ago, a giant cloud of dust hung frozen in space. Then the explosion of a nearby star caused part of that dust ...

Hunt for the names of the many moons surrounding our solar system's eight planets. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space ...

In late 2025 a mysterious comet flew between the orbits of Earth and Mars and reached a speed of more than 150,000 miles per hour during its closest approach to the sun. The rare interstellar guest to ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was the third object ever discovered in our solar system that originated from another star system. Despite a viral conspiracy theory, NASA officials have repeatedly ...