New research suggests a moon orbiting the sophomoric-sounding planet might contain enough natural resources to support alien ...

Even some asteroids have rings. It was while studying the notion of ringed moons outside of the Solar System – dubbed cronomoons – that this question started to bother astrophysicist Mario ...

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

Researchers have explored mysterious flow features on airless celestial bodies like Vesta, Ceres, and Europa. In their latest ...

(AP) — The moon, asteroids and brand new rockets topped ... The Americas reveled in a “ring of fire” eclipse in October, an appetizer to the total solar eclipse coming up in April.

MILAN — After collecting the first-ever samples from the far side of the moon, China is now setting its sights on even more distant destinations — Mars, asteroids and Jupiter, positioning ...

The eight planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Mercury is closest to the Sun. Neptune is the farthest. Jupiter: This planet has a faint ring system composed ...

On September 29, 2024, Earth captured a tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. It won't be around much longer.

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is designed to systematically explore the planet Jupiter and its moons. The spacecraft will study the structure, dynamics and composition of Jupiter's atmosphere ...

This includes studying the formation and evolution of planets, the moons and rings that orbit them, and other smaller bodies such as asteroids and comets. A large-volume plasma torch has been used ...

Asteroids and comets move in paths which ... Saturn is almost as large as Jupiter and has 82 moons. It has a system of rings orbiting around it, which are made up of rock and icy debris.