As more of the solar system has been explored and imaged, all kinds of geographical features have been mapped on many of our ...

The moon spent a few million years as a volcanic wasteland, covered with ongoing eruptions that spewed from mountains and ...

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and Laura Joy Pieters of the London Science Museum give a guided tour of our ...

For the first time, astronomers think they've found solid evidence of a moon orbiting a planet outside of our solar system. And it's a doozy. The exoplanet, named Kepler-1625b, is 8,000 light ...

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 ...

ESS1.B: Earth and the Solar System (6-8) The solar system consists of the sun and a collection of objects, including planets, their moons, and asteroids that are held in orbit around the sun by its ...

Early in the history of the solar system, a massive protoplanet ... Figuring out when the moon formed presents its own challenges. There are a number of methods, from studying samples returned ...