Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

Researchers are still not sure how old the moon is. However, there is now growing evidence that it is almost as old as our ...

Explaining this, the paper proposes that the gigantic impact which formed the roughly 1,600 mile (2,500 kilometers) wide SPA basin around 4.2 ... impact that formed Earth's moon was likely a ...

A startup company wants to establish mining operations on the moon to extract a rare isotope needed for future quantum ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

Blue Ghost just sent back amazing photos of last night's "Blood Moon" total lunar eclipse from its perch in Mare Crisium, or ...

But HERA will not reach the asteroid — which is 11 million kilometers from Earth ... snapping around 600 pictures, including rare ones of Deimos. The lumpy, 12.5-kilometer-wide moon is the ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

With a whopping total of 274 moons, researchers say Saturn’s tug of war with Jupiter for the title is settled once and for ...

A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy. Using ...

New findings from China's Chang'e 6 lunar farside samples offer insights into the moon's volcanic past and mantle evolution.