Discover the powerful volcanic eruptions that have shaped worlds across our solar system.

"The Solar Family" is an 11-minute educational film produced by Encyclopedia Britannica Films in 1936. It presents the evolution of the solar system through the lens of the planetesimal hypothesis ...

As was forewarned in the entirely scientifically accurate 1996 documentary "Independence Day," this July 2 astronomers have detected an unknown object headed for Earth(ish) from beyond our solar ...

Meet the surprising, oddball worlds moving around our solar system. From meteorites that impact Earth, to a moon that orbits backwards, to an imposter lurking in the asteroid belt, a variety of ...

New discoveries of objects in the Kuiper Belt have also presented challenges for the Planet Nine theory. The latest is known ...

Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.

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.

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system.

An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed.