As strange as it may seem to us, having lived our lives on a planet with a single moon, the Earth is the only planet in the solar system that has exactly one moon. Mars has two moons, Neptune has ...

The rest of the moons in our solar system, including Jupiter’s and Saturn’s outer moons, were probably gravitationally captured by their planets. Earth’s Moon is special because it likely ...

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

Among these collisions, one cataclysmic event would forever shape our planet and its closest celestial companion—the moon. Earth’s origins trace back to a turbulent solar system, where ...

the lead scientist for solar system small bodies at NASA Headquarters. To become a second moon, the asteroid would have to be gravitationally bound to our existing Earth-Moon system and make ...

NASA's Juno mission finds a massive lava lake in Jupiter, offering new insights into volcanic activity beyond Earth and the ...

A new NASA mission to map the solar wind has returned some of its first images from its position in low Earth orbit. The ...

One significant finding is that the moon-forming impact likely occurred 60-175 million years after the solar system’s birth. Samples of lunar rock brought back by the Apollo 15 mission. (CREDIT ...

16, 2025 — Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their ... if life exists on the moon, according to a ... Solar Wave Squeezed Jupiter's Magnetic Shield ...

We've even been asked if you could run solar cells during the long lunar night on reflected earthlight, so we decided to ...

A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth on May 21, passing within ...

A Chinese spacecraft built to collect specimens from an unexplored asteroid and return them to Earth successfully launched ...