Unlike a total solar eclipse, part of the sun is still visible during a partial solar eclipse, so there is no darkening of ...

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

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

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

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

Plus: Observe two stunning spirals, see Venus reappear as a morning star, and enjoy the Last Quarter Moon in the sky this ...

A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong ...

Charon, Pluto’s largest moon, has a tidally locked orbit. This means that if our crew can see Charon from where they landed, it will never move across the sky. Charon is also much closer to ...

(4.5 kilograms) on Pluto ... and only about two-thirds as wide as Earth’s moon. 2. Pluto was given its name by a teenage Brit The name Pluto comes from the Roman god of the underworld (Hades ...

Uranus and Neptune have 28 and 16 known moons, respectively. Despite not technically being a planet anymore, Pluto has five moons. The 128 new Saturnian satellites are all considered irregular moons.

Space scientists have announced Saturn has 128 new moons. New findings have unveiled a new total of 274 moons, almost twice as many as all the other planets combined. The International Astronomical ...

Space scientists have announced Saturn has 128 new moons. New findings have unveiled a new total of 274 moons, almost twice as many as all the other planets combined. The International ...