Astronomers have found a solar system 160 light years away with three planets roughly the size of our own.
NASA is launching a spacecraft to study the heliosphere - a bubble which extends far beyond the orbit of Pluto.
An asteroid believed to be from another solar system has been found orbiting the Sun in the wrong direction.
A small solar system object with a strange orbit has hinted at the presence of a large, unknown world.
An asteroid from the earliest days of the solar system has been found four billion kilometers from Earth.
A meteorite that crashed in the Nubian Desert has offered a glimpse of our solar system's earliest days.
Scientists have found new evidence to suggest that life could have arisen elsewhere in the solar system.
The mysterious space rock contains micro-mineral compounds found nowhere else in the solar system.
Oumuamua, the first ever confirmed visitor to our solar system, has a thick layer of organic insulation.
The space agency has made an important new exoplanet discovery using a Google artificial intelligence.
An asteroid thought to have come from another solar system is to be checked for signs of alien technology.
The gas giant is home to one of the most remarkable weather events found anywhere in the solar system.
Astronomers have suggested that there may be more than one mystery planet in the outer solar system.
Scientists believe that these new worlds lie in the 'Goldilocks zone' of their respective solar systems.
A young solar system located a mere 10 light years away appears to be remarkably similar to our own.
The move, if successful, could mean that our own solar system actually has more than 100 planets in it.
Known as Lucy and Psyche, the new spacecraft will be studying two relics of the early solar system.
A large planet lurking in the outer solar system could be causing the sun's rotational axis to tilt.
Astronomers have identified a previously unknown dwarf planet in the outer reaches of the solar system.
A Cambridge scientist maintains that there may be far more planets in the solar system than we realize.