Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using ...

For astrobiologists, the search for life beyond our solar system could be likened to where one would look in a vast desert—essentially, where there's water. And it turns out that one of the most ...

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? New images from the Hubble ...

Asteroids have long been described as the leftover pieces from the solar system’s early construction. They are like the ...

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 ...

It challenges the traditional models of solar system formation and suggests that the diversity of planetary systems may be greater than previously thought.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.

Pluto isn't the only dwarf planet residing in our solar system. Try your hand at naming the others!

Early solar system articles from across Nature Portfolio Latest Research and Reviews Mineralogical evidence for hydrothermal alteration of Bennu samples ...

Chinese astronomers have spotted a hidden supermassive black hole in the background of a peculiar gravitational wave event ...