By means of the homogeneous balance principle, a nonlinear transformation to the well-known breaking soliton equationwith physical interest was given. The original equation was turned into a homogeneity differential equation with this nonlinear trans-formation. By solving the homogeneity equation via the simplified Hirota method and applying the nonlinear transformation, one-soli-ton, two-soliton and three-soliton solutions as well as some other types of explicit solutions to the breaking soliton equation were ob-tained with the assistance of Maple.