Saturn leads the pack by a long way, however. At the start of 2025, we knew of 146 moons orbiting Saturn, and an additional ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

Based on research on lunar samples retrieved by the Chang'e-6 mission, a team of Chinese scientists confirmed that the oldest ...

In a paper published in National Science Review, a research team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences investigated impact ...

Wondering what there is to love about Jupiter? The Jovian giant has many reasons that are worthy of your affection, whether ...

American space company Firefly Aerospace announced it has selected the Honeybee Robotics rover for its 2028 mission to the ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

Chinese scientists, using lunar soil samples brought back by Chang'e-6, have determined that the Moon's oldest and largest impact crater, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin, was formed 4.25 billion ...

It noted that knowing the formation time of the 2,500-kilometer-wide SPA basin, which is located on the moon's far side, ...

Jupiter’s four largest moons – Io ... by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Originally, all moons in the Solar System were given names from Greco-Roman mythology.

Once its rings vanish from sight in March 2025, Saturn will look like a pale yellow sphere through most telescopes.