The Solar System is our immediate neighborhood and its planets and moons have shared the same astrophysical environment, e.g., experienced the same evolution of our central star, the Sun. Nevertheless ...

Learn how you can see bright Jupiter from Earth, helped by its massive size and banded, reflective cloud tops, in December's ...

The Cold Moon on Dec. 15, 2024, will not reach 100% illumination, will shine close to three bright stars and a planet, and ...

So exactly how many solar system moons have we found? The answer, it turns out, depends on your definition of a moon. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially recognizes 288 planetary ...

Cold Moon', will be the last full moon of the year, marking the end of the celestial calendar. Jupiter is to shine beside it.

It's possible that the sun could capture an ISO or a rogue planet in the same way that some of the planets have captured ...

There are also moons in the solar system, that is objects orbiting around the planets. In fact just over 180 moons at the last count. And some of those moons are so large that if they were ...

We take a look at the current best predictions for what the solar system will look like throughout the rest of the Sun's life ...

Researchers Darren Williams and Michael Zugger propose an alternative explanation, suggesting that the Moon was originally part of a binary system. Earth's gravity captured one of the objects ...

Exactly 89 days after this month’s new moon on Thursday, January 11 a total solar eclipse will occur across North America. However, this month’s new moon is the biggest “solar eclipse miss ...