The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

This orientation prevented the lander's solar panels from capturing enough sunlight, and Intuitive Machines declared Athena ...

The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.

The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision about 100 million years ago.

The Moon Tree, located near the John Scoble Memorial Pavilion in the park, will be protected by fencing and permanent signage ...

Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the ...

The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...

NASA and the Italian Space Agency made history on March 3 when the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) became the first ...

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