Earth is the only planet in our solar system with a single moon, making it a rare phenomenon for a planet of its kind.

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In a landmark observation by a team of international researchers, NASA's Juno spacecraft has, for the first time, clearly ...

JUICE ("Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer"), which is on its way to do just what you might expect after hearing its name. The ultimate goa ...

Ice generates electricity as a response to stress when it bends. Experiments with pure and saline ice found that with enough ...

Phases of ice that exist naturally only on frozen moons could be detected using infrared spectroscopy, according to new ...

NASA unveiled a new discovery inside our solar system. We had only seen these big lakes filled with water on Earth - but this ...

In advance of that decision, the space agencies have released details of the dueling proposals. The potential Saturn mission would follow up the remarkable discoveries made by the Nasa/Esa ...

The ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE), which launched in April 2023, has completed another successful flyby aimed at boosting its speed ahead of a Jupiter orbital insertion sometime in 2031.

Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third ISO ever detected. It was discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) station on 1 July 2025. It's traveling through the inner solar system at ...