Learn about Mars at opposition in January 2025, when the Red Planet is closest to Earth. Discover how to view it, key dates, ...
A tiny asteroid loitering in a near-Earth orbit for a few months last year may have an intriguing origin on our moon. Its ...
An illustration of a private U.S. lander on the surface of the moon built by Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace. The ...
"There are still many things related to planetary formation and the early evolution of young planetary systems that we don't ...
Hot Jupiters are giant planets initially known to orbit alone close to their star. During their migration towards their star, ...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a cameo appearance of the tiny moon Phobos on its trek around the Red Planet. Even today, it is frequently called the "Red Planet" because iron minerals in the ...
Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a ...
Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour “kiss-and-capture” encounter after a grazing ...
Mars currently has two satellite moons – Phobos and Deimos – the twin sons of Ares, the god of war (Mars in Roman mythology) ...
Astronomers refer to satellites as objects in space that orbit larger bodies ... had moons that got knocked away by ...
India’s orbital objective India’s space program has landed a robot on the moon and put a spacecraft into orbit around Mars. The country’s most immediate priorities are much closer to Earth, but that ...