The celestial bodies in our solar system take many forms. Some are made of rock, others gas, and others even ice. The farther ...
A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the ...
A world-leading designer of space robots says gigantic new rockets being tested by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are ...
Worlds will align for a "planetary parade" in January, with four bright and easily visible to the naked eye. But an even ...
For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...
The larger moons of Pluto and Earth likely formed through a collisional process with Charon and our moon, respectively, ...
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The goal was to find a name for one of Earth's seven known quasi-moons; its provisional designation was the very catchy title of 2004 GU9. Quasi-moons are "moons" that orbit planets and seem to ...
A small asteroid named 2024 PT5, once hailed as Earth's temporary second moon, might have originated from our very own Moon.
Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size ... Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of ...
A famous illustration of Saturn's moon Titan got it all wrong. Never mind -- what we imagine space to be, and what we know it ...