Saturn surpasses Jupiter with 128 newly discovered moons, becoming the planet with the most moons in our solar system.

ranging from irregular town-size space rocks to massive rounded bodies that are potentially big enough to be considered planets in their own right. So exactly how many solar system moons have we ...

They can come from other solar systems and be thrown into interstellar space by collisions or be slingshotted by a planet or star's gravity. Credit: University of Western Ontario Gregg ...

Space-based solar power (SBSP) stations work by using a system of mirrors to concentrate ... might just be the next challenge in the space race.

the race isn't about a cold war, it's competition for resources. Water now, minerals in future. The moon was overlooked for decades as space agencies gazed deeper into the solar system.

crossing our solar system between 11 million and 18 million years ago. Maconi and his team used data from the Gaia space telescope, which has tracked billions of stars in the Milky Way ...

It wasn’t long ago that astronomers detected the presence of what was then considered the most distant object in our solar system ... the thing about naming space objects is that eventually ...

NASA’s Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission promises to fill significant gaps in our understanding of the universe and propel humanity forward in a new phase of the space race. Exploring the cosmos ...

Apr. 6, 2023 — Following in the footsteps of the Neptune image released in 2022, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has taken a stunning image of the solar system's other ice giant, the planet ...

New research may shine a light on part of outer space's great mysteries ... trillions of icy objects on the edge of our solar system. But while it has been accepted as a theory for over 70 ...

We‘re Getting Close to Chucking Objects Into Space Space-based solar power (SBSP) stations work by using a system of mirrors to concentrate sunlight onto panels, which then generate electricity.