A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

In addition, our solar system as well as all of the others ... he thought it was an object with three parts: a planet and two large moons on either side. Not knowing he was seeing a planet with ...

The planets and moons then all rotate in the same direction. But only a few moons in our solar system were likely created ...

The Solar System consists of the eight planets that orbit our Sun and other celestial bodies such as moons, comets, asteroids, minor planets, and dust and gas. Sun is considered as the centre of ...

The planets in the Solar System are all different but we can divide ... is a small rocky sphere, not much bigger than our Moon. But Mercury has almost no atmosphere, so it does not hold onto ...

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft, barreling through our solar system, recently used Earth's gravity to ...

The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) probe has spotted a habitable planet roughly one astronomical ...

A star’s flyby likely altered the orbits of trans-Neptunian objects beyond Neptune that changes how we view the solar ...

So far, searches for the hypothetical Planet Nine have yielded no such world. There are many possible reasons for this, one ...

This video explores the key characteristics of each planet within our solar system. Suitable for teaching science at KS1 and ...

The night sky on Tuesday will treat us to a partial lunar eclipse during a supermoon. It’s an astronomical wonder that almost ...

This is when we turn to the telescope to provide us with a 'window' to our celestial neighbors ... satellites' or moons; orbiting around other planets in the solar system. From the Galilean ...