Moons are natural satellites that rotate around planets or asteroids. They come in many shapes, sizes and types. Larger moons are spherical, but others can have an irregular shape or texture. Although ...

Jupiter has 80 known moons, with more still being discovered by astronomers and amateur sky-watchers alike. That’s second only to Saturn’s 83 moons in our Solar System. The below video does a cool ...

The Solar System is more than just planets; it is home to a dazzling variety of moons, each with its own unique charm. Some ...

Imagine boiling something. You probably picture a stove, heat radiating from a burner, and bubbles rising because the ...

The outer planets of the solar system are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal impact between the young Earth and a mysterious planetary body called Theia changed everything—reshaping Earth, forming the Moon, and scattering clues across ...

Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...

The moon, which orbits a giant exoplanet called Kepler-1625b, is incredibly large, comparable to the size of the gas giant Neptune in our solar system. There's no analog for such a large moon in our ...

Parker Solar Probe Makes History by Touching the Sun 8 million miles above the Sun's surface on December 24, 2024, traveling ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research led the study. They examined iron isotopes in 15 Earth ...