Scientists have developed a new method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons. Importantly, the new ...

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

MIT researchers analyzed precious samples from the asteroid Ryugu, delivered to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission. They ...

Our solar system consists of Sun and celestial bodies bound to it by gravity, including planets, moons, asteroids, and comets ...

Interestingly amongst the hundreds of moons in our solar system, Titan is the only one with a thick atmosphere. Titan is also larger than the planet Mercury and it is mostly made of nitrogen just ...

You may need binoculars or a telescope for this one. It includes the three furthest planets in our solar system.

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...

A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, ...

When the Voyager missions traveled to the outer Solar System to study the giant planets there, they found the moons that orbited them to be more diverse, and at least as interesting. As NASA ...

Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today.

Saturn’s moons range from large celestial bodies to smaller moonlets that are only a few kilometers wide. Each moon has unique features, from icy surfaces to volcanic activity.