If you look up on a clear night, the brightest and largest object in the sky will ... So exactly how many solar system moons have we found? The answer, it turns out, depends on your definition ...

Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon and the solar system's largest, is bigger than Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto, with a diameter of 5,268 kilometers.

The solar system is home to bizarre moons like Enceladus and Callisto, each unveiling nature’s wonders and some of science’s ...

Saturn now leads the solar system with 274 known moons. Scientists say many moons formed from past collisions.

Researchers used a synthetic version of moon dust to build working solar panels, which could eventually be created within – ...

Solar panels that are 99% Moon dust could be a low-cost solution to powering a future lunar base 1. To survive in the harsh ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

The same dirt that clings to astronauts’ boots may one day keep their lights on. In a study publishing April 3 in the Cell ...