Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...

While searching for a hypothetical planet at the far edges of our solar system known as Planet Nine or Planet X, a team of astronomers discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter. That brings the total ...

The IAU also estimates that there could be "more than 100" extra dwarf planets waiting to be found in the outer solar system, all of which could have moons. "Just like the giant planet satellites ...

But a relatively obscure dwarf planet in the main asteroid belt could ... used to be an 'ocean world' like Europa (one of Jupiter's moons), but with a dirty, muddy ocean," said Mike Sori, a ...

As of now, the largest known moon in relation to its parent is Charon, the largest moon of the dwarf planet Pluto. Unique among the many strange moons of the solar system, Charon is approximately ...

A few years ago, Google gave people the ability to freely explore objects in space — but that experience was mostly locked up in Google Earth, the company's 3D-mapping software. This week ...

Our solar system contains a central star with eight planets, dwarf planets, moons, comets and asteroids.

Planets, dwarf planets, moons, asteroids and comets are being carefully examined and explored by means of highly sophisticated remote sensing and innovative in-situ missions to answer three ...

Many planets have moons, and some planets have many moons - Saturn has more than 50. The Earth has just one moon - the Moon. Pluto is a dwarf planet. As the name suggests, a dwarf planet is ...

requirements to be classified as a dwarf planet is new. It orbits the Sun, and not another planet, so that rules it out from being a Moon. But unlike an actual planet, it hasn’t pushed away or ...

Fortunately the name is a misnomer, since there are also moons, dwarf planets, and even the International Space Station to explore. There's no search box within "Planets," so it's difficult to ...