Solar system coverage from Scientific American, featuring news and articles about advances in the field.

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 model of a solar system first and foremost with a small projector built in, the Science Can Solar System Planetary Projector is a great educational tool for kids.

Scientists have watched a solar system being born for the first ever time. Using a powerful telescope, researchers saw the first pieces of material that will go onto form planets.

Astronomers witness dawn of new solar system for 1st time Scientists were able to see the moment when planets began to form around a star.

Experts say that the discovery could help better understand the beginnings of our own Solar System.

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one day resemble our own.

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of planets forming around HOPS-315, a baby star located 1,300 light-years away.

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

The comet is only the third known object originating outside of out solar system to pay us a visit.