They’re running rings around Uranus. New research suggests a moon orbiting the sophomoric-sounding planet might contain ...

(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.

"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 ...

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.

And late into the second decade of this 21st century, there’s no pressing political reason to capture asteroids, set up camp near the Moon’s South Pole, or send astronauts to Mars. While I’m ...

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.

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. Discoveries made by Voyager 2 in 1986 led ...

India landed successfully on the moon, outdoing Russia, which crashed. And NASA brought back its first samples of an asteroid. These are just a few of 2023's cosmic hits and misses. And there's ...