In science-fiction stories, companies often mine the moon or asteroids. While this may seem far-fetched, this idea is edging ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

Our solar system is a pretty wild place, full of amazing stuff. From the giant Sun to the tiny rocks floating around, there’s ...

To get a glimpse of the “Swift Planet,” EarthSky suggests waiting for the sun to set before looking west for the planet ...

#2. The Moon came from Earth. It didn’t form beside our planet, and Earth’s gravity didn’t capture it. The latest theory says ...

However, NASA, with the backing of key congressional leaders, has held an iron grip on having its own heavy-lift launcher and ...

If you’re on the East Coast, wake up early to try and catch the moon take a bite out of the sun on Saturday. 0 20 40 60 80 100 Sources: Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses Database by Xavier ...

The Solar System The Solar System consists of the eight planets that orbit our Sun and other celestial bodies such as moons, comets, asteroids, minor planets, and dust and gas.

S teve Synnott never forgot the day Ed Stone let him name a moon. ... Voyager 2 left the solar system on Nov. 5, 2018, and is more than 12.5 billion mi. (20 billion km) away.

Astronomers are adding three newly discovered moons to our solar system’s growing list of known celestial bodies. A team of international researchers spotted an additional moon circling Uranus ...

There’s a newfound ocean in the outer Solar System, and it’s in a very surprising place 1. Mimas, a mid-sized moon of Saturn, turns out to have an ocean beneath its icy surface — despite ...

The most volcanic body in the solar system, Jupiter’s moon Io offers some clues to how icy ocean worlds might maintain their liquid interiors. Photograph: Ted Stryk/NASA/SwRI/MSS.