The moon is 384,000 kilometers (239,000 miles) away from Earth, but one of the best places to study its surface is much closer to home. Western planetary scientist Catherine Neish and PhD candidate ...

Scientists have discovered a unique planetary system located 71 light-years away, featuring a red dwarf star orbited by a ...

What has eluded detection so far have been exosatellites: moons orbiting those remote planets. Our solar system is home to a ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Scientists may have found the first moon outside our Solar System – depending on what astronomers ultimately decide counts as ...

The object orbits a brown dwarf that orbits a star, and astronomers aren’t sure if it’s a planet, a moon — or something else ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare planetary system 71 light-years away, where a Jupiter-sized world orbits a brown dwarf, ...

A shattered asteroid may have unleashed a long-lasting cosmic barrage that left scars across the inner solar system and ...

Lunar settlements will look dramatically different from the glittering skyscraper-filled cities on Earth, experts told ...

Eulalia asteroid bombardment: a new study identifies the Eulalia asteroid family as the source of a third wave of impacts ...

Thursday’s release of a surprisingly sophisticated new open-source AI model from Beijing-based startup Moonshot has ignited ...