"I think that there are probably about 10,000 moons in the solar system," Ashton said. But there is no telling how long it could take us to find them all. Editor's note: ...

There's a new moon king in our solar system: 12 new moons were discovered around Jupiter, which makes it the planet with the most moons. Jupiter is already the biggest planet in our solar system.

But of the nearly 300 moons found to date, not a single one is a ringed moon. This, actually, is weird. Of the eight planets in the Solar System, half have rings of dust and ice orbiting their ...

Neptune has 16 known moons, of which Triton is the largest. Interestingly it is the only large moon in our solar system with a retrograde orbit, which Triton orbits in the opposite direction of ...

How did Earth, alone among the Solar System's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

For the first time, astronomers think they've found solid evidence of a moon orbiting a planet outside of our solar system. And it's a doozy. The exoplanet, named Kepler-1625b, is 8,000 light ...

The solar system’s smallest, innermost planet will resemble a tiny ... Nearly a week after Fourth of July fireworks ...

Recreating artificial solar eclipses in space could help astronomers decipher the inner workings of our sun much quicker than ...