Take a tour of the space volcanoes on other planets and moons across the Solar System, and find out how they differ from ...

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the solar system was just getting started, a Mars-size protoplanet named Theia ...

Miranda, the deformed and most undersized of Uranus' large moons, features a patchwork of ridges, valleys, and great cliffs. Scientists consider its mixed-up surface to be the product of intense ...

Our solar system is home to some truly bizarre moons, each with unique characteristics hinting at the diverse and mysterious nature of our solar system. Saturn's small inner moon, Enceladus ...

"But I think it's important to have a catalogue of all the objects in the solar system ... thousands of moons in orbit around ...

A new study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick, hot atmosphere. TOI-270 d is ...

"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off of them." ...

Scientists have hypothesized since the 1960s that the sun is a source of ingredients that form water on the moon. When a ...

The same dirt that clings to astronauts' boots may one day keep their lights on. In a study published in Device, researchers ...

"What surprised us, at the end, was how effective this type of impact could be in explaining Mercury's unusual structure ...

The closest are the four rocky planets, the remaining gas planets inhabit deeper space. The solar system is also home to many other cosmic bodies including asteroids, moons and dwarf planets such ...

taking its tally of moons to 274 -- the most for any planet in the Solar System. International Astronomical Union recognised the discovery made by a team of astronomers led by Edward Ashton at the ...