The Solar System is more than just planets; it is home to a dazzling variety of moons, each with its own unique charm. Some are icy and serene, others are stormy or volcanic. Among the many satellites ...

Researchers look into the stresses caused by oceans in the surrounding shells of icy moons, and find that some can release ...

The outer planets of the solar system are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are ...

The outer planets of the Solar System are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn’s moon Enceladus, are ...

Small icy moons in the outer reaches of our solar system may hide boiling oceans underneath their surfaces, a new study finds ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of Earth’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later formed the moon.

Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...

"During the early solar system's game of cosmic billiards, Earth was struck by a neighbor,” said Dauphas. “It was a lucky shot. Without the moon's steadying influence on our planet's tilt, the climate ...

Earth and the planetary object that gave rise to the Moon were likely born in the same region of the solar system.