The Sun is orbited by eight planets, at least five dwarf planets, tens of thousands of asteroids, and around three trillion comets and icy bodies. Although not all objects of the solar system are as ...

If you look up on a clear night, the brightest and largest object in the sky will probably be the moon. And unless you have a decent telescope, it is the only natural satellite you can see with your ...

Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the indisputable frontrunner for having the most moons in our solar system. When ...

An asteroid 20 times larger than the one that may have wiped out the dinosaurs struck Jupiter's moon Ganymede some 4 billion years ago, dramatically shifting the possibly life-hosting satellite's axis ...