If you look up on a clear night, the brightest and largest object in the sky will probably be the moon. And unless you have a decent telescope, it is the only natural satellite you can see with your ...

Saturn reigns supreme when it comes to the number of moons orbiting any solar system planet. Including the 128 ...

Far from the Sun’s heat, orbiting the outer planets of the solar system, are moons with oceans of liquid water beneath their frozen surfaces. Keith Cooper finds out how planetary scientists are ...

Researchers have uncovered startling insights into boiling oceans on small icy moons in the outer reaches of the solar system. Findings have been published in the journal Nature Astronomy. To ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

There is something comforting to the idea that even within our own little solar system, through which we have sent probes and rovers and other astonishing bits of space tech, there remains a hefty ...

That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...