Astronomers have traced the origin of asteroid 2024 YR4, which appears to have broken off from a larger space rock.

In March and April 2025, internet users shared a striking image that they claimed showed "Steeple Mountain," a massive point ...

Mars and the moon will also be in conjunction tonight. If you're lucky enough to have clear skies tonight, you can catch a ...

A pair of circling white dwarf stars located on our "cosmic doorstep" are doomed to explode in a rare, quadruple supernova ...

There is no other moon quite like our own in the entire solar system. The Moon is unique in a lot of ways, some of which are ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

Astronomers once only had knowledge of a few moons—but with advancements in telescopic technology, that number grew and grew.

Doesn’t Jupiter have the most moons ... Edward Ashton, who led the discovery of the new moons, doesn’t think we’ll be finding ...

If there was a contest for the most interesting moon in our solar system, Callisto would be a contender. Jupiter's second-largest moon has more impact craters on its surface than any other ...

What can a sample return mission from Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, teach scientists about planetary and satellite (moon) ...

"The solar wind squished Jupiter’s magnetic shield like a giant squash ball," O'Donoghue said. "This created a super-hot ...

The findings, which mean Saturn has more moons than the rest of the other planets in our solar system combined, were ratified on Tuesday by the International Astronomical Union. Jupiter and Saturn ...