Gordon tells Universe Today, "We were motivated at the start by a couple of ideas, but my biggest source of inspiration was the idea that circumbinary planets ... moons within our solar system ...

NASA/Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC), CC BY Our solar system is a particularly crowded place. Millions of objects move within it, whether they are planets, moons, comets, or asteroids. And every year, we ...

New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the distribution of ices in ...

"One plus one is more than two — having two data points for TRAPPIST-1b now allows us to explore alternative scenarios for its atmosphere, whether it exists or not." ...

A mini-moon that has been orbiting Earth for the past two months will peel away from our planet's orbit today (Nov. 25) as it prepares for a decades-long jaunt through the solar system.

Observations made of Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s flybys helped astronomers confirm how and why Io became the ...

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped asteroids, planets and moons grow in our solar system. Analysis of three ...

Here’s how it works. Earth isn't alone in orbiting our sun; it's joined by a bunch of planets, moons, asteroids, and comets that we collectively call our solar system. But how much do you know ...

People around the world will have a chance this weekend to catch what could be the year’s most stunning view of the largest planet in our solar system ... s four largest moons — Ganymede ...

Credit: buradaki/Getty Images A mini-moon that has ... will peel away from our planet's orbit today (Nov. 25) as it prepares for a decades-long jaunt through the solar system.