Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with ...

Learn about Mars at opposition in January 2025, when the Red Planet is closest to Earth. Discover how to view it, key dates, ...

An illustration of a private U.S. lander on the surface of the moon built by Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace. The ...

The moon performed a cosmic ballet with Mars this week.

Reaching Mercury is such a challenge because “the gravitational pull of the Sun is very strong near Mercury, which makes it ...

An international team of astronomers has reported the detection of a new exoplanet orbiting a bright late F-type star. The ...

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 ...

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 ...