The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision ...

Firefly Aerospace on Monday announced the conclusion of its Blue Ghost lunar lander mission, declaring it the first “fully ...

"If the moon and a planet are near Castor and Pollux you have an impressive show." From our earthly perspective, the moon and Mars will appear closest to each other at around 8 p.

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

After hours of uncertainty, officials from the Houston company said there are clues that the spacecraft is on its side, which ...

The shape of a planet's orbit is one of its fundamental properties, along with its size and distance from its host star.

The moons are only a few kilometers in size. Saturn has more moons than ... further solidifying the planet as the "moon king" of our solar system. Astronomers from Taiwan, Canada, France and ...

A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation of ...

is considered a moon. Mazrouei says many of the moons surrounding other planets in our solar system — including the ones observed here — are in fact only a few kilometres across in size and ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.

The commercially and privately constructed Athena spacecraft is returning data to NASA scientists on Earth, they announced ...