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 ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

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 ...

(Read “Pluto’s Moons Dance to a Random Beat ... What we learn from the dwarf planet could also give scientists a peek at the processes that shaped an early Earth into the planet ...

This includes a recent study that analyzed potential cryovolcanism on Umbriel and Oberon based on similar geological features on the dwarf planet Ceres. Additionally, the moon Miranda looks like ...

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 ...

One of these dwarf planets actually orbits in between Mars ... Pluto is smaller than Earth's moon, yet it still manages to have five moons of its own. Their names are Styx, Nix, Kerberos, Hydra ...

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

The largest object is the asteroid belt is the dwarf planet Ceres ... asteroids, or moons that broke up before they reached the planet. As well as its rings, Saturn is orbited by 83 moons.