The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision ...

The Solar System is a vast and varied landscape offering an array of planetary and moonscape phenomena unlike anything found on Earth. Among these are ... Read more The post The Solar System’s Most ...

For a few evenings around 28 February, every planet in the solar system will be visible in the night sky, thanks to a rare great planetary alignment. Here's how to make sure you don't miss this ...

If you find Jupiter, you’ll likely see four small dots to the side of the gas giant: they are the Galilean moons, four of the 95 natural satellites around the Solar System’s largest planet.

The gas giant planets of our solar system have many moons ... latest haul around Saturn bring its total to 274. “It’s the largest batch of new moons,” said Mike Alexandersen at the Harvard ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.

If you look up on a clear night, the brightest and largest object in ... big enough to be considered planets in their own right. So exactly how many solar system moons have we found?

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

The first time you may have heard the term ‘dwarf planet’ was when Pluto got demoted to one in 2006 (RIP). However, we actually have six in our Solar System. Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris ...