What processes during the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and even an ...

Saturn’s moon Titan has always stood out among the celestial bodies in our solar system. It is the only moon with a thick, ...

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially recognizes 288 planetary moons orbiting the solar system's eight worlds ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is poised to discover billions of new astronomical objects, revolutionizing understanding of ...

How Many Planets Are There in the Solar System? There are 8 planets in our solar system. The planets orbit the Sun in elliptical trajectories, and they are all different in size, composition, ...

The nights surrounding June 7 will see Jupiter and Mercury crowd together close to the horizon in the northwestern sky.

The LSST camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its jaw-dropping first images, each capturing 45 times the area ...

Powered by the largest digital camera ever built, Rubin Observatory has taken its first images—millions of stars and galaxies ...

Rubin’s data will help scientists piece together how our solar system formed and evolved. The predicted stats are staggering: 127,000 NEOs, 109,000 Jupiter Trojans, 37,000 distant Kuiper Belt ...

Richard Lindzen and William Happer, who earlier this month published a new scientific paper that completely rejects the ...

The first test images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile showcase thousands of previously unknown asteroids and ...