Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments that recreate the conditions of Saturn’s moon Titan in a tiny vial. The ...

A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the mystery of why no ringed moons exist today.

The Solar System is our immediate neighborhood and its planets and moons have shared the same astrophysical environment, e.g., experienced the same evolution of our central star, the Sun. Nevertheless ...

Scientists have long thought that the South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by a shallow-angle impact, but new research suggests otherwise. A study using NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data found ...

Whereas our solar system's oldest moons, such as the inner moons of Jupiter ... who study the Pluto-Charon system have come up with a model that could solve the mystery. Their research was ...

Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a host of other puzzles connected to the solar system's deep past ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system ... new computer model can be used to detect and measure interior oceans on the ice covered moons of Uranus.

A passing star may be responsible for more than three-fourths of the moons in our solar system as the stellar traveler flung massive rocky bodies into our cosmic neighborhood, a new study suggests.

The vastness of our Solar System and the distances involved ... and state the evidence which disproved the geocentric model (Jupiter had moons) and proved the heliocentric model (Mars ...