There is no other moon quite like our own in the entire solar system. The Moon is unique in a lot of ways, some of which are ...

Uranus, the mysterious ice giant, has 27 known moons, each named after literary characters from Shakespeare and Alexander ...

Are there more out there? And what exactly makes something a moon, anyway? These new discoveries cement Saturn’s place as the ...

How can Uranus be used to indirectly study its moons and identify if they possess subsurface oceans? This is what a recent ...

Soil and rocks returned from the moon's far side suggest it may be drier than the side constantly facing Earth ...

Despite its uniquely rich inventory of organic molecules, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may be able to support only a minuscule amount of biomass, if life exists on the moon, according to a study ...

Despite a few months topping the hit list of the most dangerous asteroids, it is now certain that 2024 YR4 won’t hit our ...

Solar Cells Made of Moon Dust Could Power Future Space Exploration ... Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured ...

Astronomers once only had knowledge of a few moons—but with advancements in telescopic technology, that number grew and grew.

What can a sample return mission from Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, teach scientists about planetary and satellite (moon) ...

Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon and the solar system's largest, is bigger than Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto, with a diameter of 5,268 kilometers.

Because the Moon receives a strong solar flux of about 1,400 W/m² and ... would outperform anything brought from Earth once the system produces more than 3 megawatts of power.