Unlike Earth’s Moon, which is 3,475 km wide, these newly discovered moons are only a few kilometres across and follow irregular orbits. Many of these small moons move in chaotic paths ...

Deimos, the moon of Mars, appears in silhouette against the ... with the hope of gathering more information about these small celestial bodies that populate our Solar System. A gravitational assist is ...

Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...

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

Firefly Aerospace’s successful moon lander has yielded a trove of data that scientists will pore over for years.

Astronomers stunned to find Saturn has 128 more moons in rare discovery - The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

NASA is preparing for the launch of its fifth New Frontiers mission, NF-5, aimed at exploring high-priority scientific ...

The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Saturn now leads the solar system with 274 known moons. Scientists say many moons formed from past collisions.

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