A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

This video explores the key characteristics of each planet within our solar system. Suitable for teaching science at KS1 and ...

The planets and moons then all rotate in the same direction. But only a few moons in our solar system were likely created ...

Scientists debate existence of 1st moons seen beyond our solar system Streaming instabilities are thus important in models of ...

The night sky on Tuesday will treat us to a partial lunar eclipse during a supermoon. It’s an astronomical wonder that almost ...

In addition, our solar system as well as all of the others ... he thought it was an object with three parts: a planet and two large moons on either side. Not knowing he was seeing a planet with ...

A star’s flyby likely altered the orbits of trans-Neptunian objects beyond Neptune that changes how we view the solar ...

A 60-mile wide asteroid impact on Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, drastically reshaped its surface and altered its ...

The planets in the Solar System are all different but we can divide ... is a small rocky sphere, not much bigger than our Moon. But Mercury has almost no atmosphere, so it does not hold onto ...

"If giant planets in our Solar System have rings, and if centaurs (asteroids beyond Jupiter's orbit) and trans-Neptunian objects also have them, why don't moons in the Solar System have rings?" ...

The "mini-moon" in the form of asteroid 2024 PT5 will stick around for just two months. Newly released images of Mars reveal a "smiley" salt deposit on the Red Planet's surface. A related study ...

Google Maps in Space lets you "walk" the surface of the Moon, Mars, Venus, and other entities in the Solar System, as well as ...