We used to think moons were the boring sidekicks of the solar system. For decades, we treated them like cosmic leftovers — cold, dead rocks that did nothing but tag along with their parent planets. We ...

The outer planets of the solar system are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are known to have oceans of liquid water between the ice shell and the rocky ...

As it crossed our Solar System, the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS released up to the equivalent of 70 Olympic swimming pools ...

This year, astronomers discovered more than 100 previously unknown moons in our own solar system. There may be many more yet to be discovered, and cataloguing them could help us better understand how ...

Our exploration of the outer Solar System has revealed a host of icy moons, many with surface features that suggest a complex geology. In some cases, these features—most notably the geysers of ...

Far from the Sun’s heat, orbiting the outer planets of the solar system, are moons with oceans of liquid water beneath their frozen surfaces. Keith Cooper finds out how planetary scientists are ...

"Life could go on as usual." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Small icy moons in the outer reaches of our solar system may hide ...

Moons may seem like quiet companions to the planets, but many of them are worlds every bit as fascinating as the planets themselves. Some are covered in oceans, some erupt with lava, and others hide ...

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The fifth planet from the sun, Jupiter is what watercolor dreams are made of. Vibrant bands of clouds ripple around its thick ...

An artistic rendering of a dust and gas disk encircling the young exoplanet, CT Cha b, 625 light-years from Earth. Spectroscopic data from NASA’s JWST suggest the disk contains the raw materials for ...