The scientific work carried out by IMCCE mainly cover the dynamic and planetologic studies of the bodies of the solar and extra-solar systems, as well as the terrestrial environment. Mathematics, celestial mechanics, and astronomical observations of (exo)planets, natural satellites, asteroids, comets and meteoroids are the core business of IMCCE.

The Solar System Portal (SSP) has the ambition to place at the disposal of the astronomical community and the general public its knowledge and its expertise concerning the dynamics and the physics of planetary systems through databases, ephemeris computation services, tools of simulation, and numerical computation services, fully compliant with the interoperability concept of the Virtual observatory (VO).

The VO-IMCCE project is born in 2003. The first step was to make an interconnection between the VizieR service (CDS) and the service of calculation of asteroid ephemerides of the IMCCE. In 2004, we began the development of tools and services in the framework of the Virtual observatory. In 2005 the first version of the SkyBoT service is born to answer the simple question: which solar system bodies are visible in a given area of the sky at a given epoch? The service was put in production in January 2006 through a Web service, through the VO portal Aladin (CDS), and through various softwares, such as Audela and the WCS tools. A few months later, the Miriade services came out to provide new computing services of solar system body ephemerides.

Starting from 2008, the second main release of the SkyBoT and the Miriade services are online. In 2012, two new services enhance the portal: M4AST, a free on-line tool for modeling visible and near-IR spectra of atmosphereless bodies, and SsODNet, an information system dedicated to the solar and extra-solar system objects, fully released in February 2017.

In 2018, the IMCCE's VO Solar System Portal adopts a new design to celebrate its 10 years of activity.

The Solar System Portal could be developed thanks to the efforts of the international astronomical community through the International Virtual Observatory alliance (IVOA), which led to the construction of the Virtual Observatory. We are thankful, in particular, for the technical and human assistance brought by the European Virtual Observatory (EURO-VO) project and the Centre de Données astronomique de Strasbourg (CDS).

The Miriade ephemeris service and the SsODNet information system have been supported by the EuroPlaNet Research Infrastructure project, a four-year Coordination Action supported by the European Union, funded under the Sixth (2005-2008, European Planetology Network) and Seventh (2009-2012, Europlanet Research Infrastructure) framework programmes. In 2016 and 2017, the Miriade.ephemph service has benefited some funding from the Europlanet 2020 project funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 654208.

The Solar System Portal is the result of many years of fruitful collaborations with worldwide astronomers and science teams, in particular the TOP team of the Lagrange laboratory of the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur.