Latest about Solar System
Our solar system's asteroid belt is slowly disappearing
A new analysis estimates that the asteroid belt is steadily losing mass each year, and may not be as permanent a feature of the solar system as we thought.
'Completely unexplained': James Webb telescope finds strange 'dark beads' in Saturn's atmosphere
The beads appear above a swirling hexagonal jet stream at the gas giant's north pole, and could emerge from interactions between its magnetosphere and atmosphere.
Why does Pluto have such a weird orbit?
The dwarf planet has a strange orbit and tilt — what gives?
'A genuine surprise': Near-Earth asteroid Ryugu once had 'flowing water' that transformed its insides
A new analysis of asteroid Ryugu hints that the "potentially hazardous" space rock once had flowing water in its core, possibly leftover from the impact that created it.
Where could alien life exist in our solar system?
The solar system has eight planets and hundreds of moons. Could extraterrestrials live on any of them?
Cataclysmic crash with neighboring planet may be the reason there's life on Earth today, new studies hint
Early Earth may not have had the right ingredients for life — until a nearby Mars-size planet crashed into it, two new studies hint.
James Webb telescope images reveal there's something strange with interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made its first observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing that the comet appears to be unusually rich in carbon dioxide.
How many moons are in the solar system?
The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. But how many do we actually know about? And how many more are waiting to be discovered?
