A paper published this week by doctoral candidate Te Han and his adviser, Paul Robertson, probably shrinks the number of ...

Jupiter, the giant of our Solar System, remains one of the most fascinating and mysterious planets to explore. With its ...

Scientists discover 3I/ATLAS, a possible 7-billion-year-old comet from deep space. It may rewrite what we know about the ...

Among the billions and billions of planets and moons in this galaxy, we may encounter many examples of double planets, but what would they be like and could life arise on them?

Moons of free-floating planets “will not be the most favorable places for life to arise,” says astrophysicist Alex Teachey, of the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics in ...

The planets and moons then all rotate in the same direction. But only a few moons in our solar system were likely created this way. Scientists predict that Jupiter’s and Saturn's inner moons ...

Ultimately, the question of why some planets have moons is still widely debated, but factors such as a planet’s size, gravitational pull, Hill sphere radius and how its solar system formed may ...

Each of Jupiter's other 91 official moons has a diameter greater than 0.6 mile (1 kilometer) — but only 57 have names, and just eight have regular, nearly round orbits.

These planets are much larger and mostly composed of hydrogen, helium, and ices like water, methane, and ammonia. They also have extensive systems of rings and moons. 3.

We could crown Saturn as the king of the moons because of the highest number compared with other planets. The total number of moons is 274. In Saturn’s orbit. This has been confirmed by NASA.

Starfield planets - all systems, moons, and worlds. There are over 1,000 Starfield planets, so here’s a guide to every colony world and star system we know of in this vast, open-world space game.