Our solar system is a pretty wild place, full of amazing stuff. From the giant Sun to the tiny rocks floating around, there’s ...

A Dec. 28, 2023, Facebook post (direct link, archive link) claims humanity's basic understanding of the solar system is flawed. "They say the sun is 400 times larger than the moon and that it only ...

Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.

The population suggested by 2017 OF201’s discovery potentially hundreds of its kind could total 1% of Earth’s mass, comparable to the Moon’s mass and redefining the solar system’s tally.

The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the ... Europa, Io and Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system. But Saturn has even more: There are at least 274 Saturnian ...

'Giant Impact' 20x Size of Dino Killer Shifted Solar System's Largest Moon. Published Sep 03, 2024 at 5:00 AM EDT. By . Tom Howarth is a Newsweek reporter based in Bristol, U.K.

However, no study so far has definitively spotted rings around any of the solar system's 300-odd moons. (A 2008 study claiming that Jupiter's moon Rhea possessed a ring turned out to be a false ...

Recent research suggested the first and only moons seen around planets outside the solar system didn't actually exist; now, the scientists who initially found them are back to defend their discovery.

At nearly 3,300 miles in diameter, Ganymede is also the solar system’s largest moon—bigger even than the 3,030-mile wide planet Mercury. But that doesn’t mean it’s impervious to a pounding.

In a study published Tuesday in the journal Physical Review D, physicists at MIT say the presence of a tiny black hole speeding through the solar system could be identified by the gentle ...

The moon will drift far enough from Earth that it no longer fully obstructs the sun. But predicting when this will happen poses numerous challenges. By Katherine Kornei The total solar eclipse ...