offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar system. The ... Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists recently led a team that found, for the first ...

If the scientists could very precisely measure the proportions of lutetium and halfnium in moon rocks compared to other ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but get a telescope and you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Because planets always appear in a line, the alignment isn't anything out of the norm. What's less common is seeing so many ...

Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense ...

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

Six planets are parading across the sky, appearing as some of the night's brightest stars. A few easy tips can help you ...

A small space rock that lingered near Earth last year and was referred to as its temporary “mini-moon” may actually ... from our corner of the solar system. Astronomers first spotted the ...

New research suggests Pluto may have had a “kiss” with its largest moon billions of years ago ... located in the Kuiper Belt at the edge of our solar system, collided without annihilating ...

"Because most solar system moons rotate very slowly (keeping the same face towards their planet as they orbit, as our moon does to Earth), any ring particles must be orbiting the moon much faster ...

On Monday night you may have a chance to witness the moon obscuring the Red Planet ... of material left over from the formation of the solar system that has begun to melt as it approaches the ...