A powerful solar storm has delivered a dramatic blow to Jupiter’s magnetosphere, revealing that even the largest planet in ...

“The solar wind squished Jupiter’s magnetic shield like a giant squash ball. This created a super-hot region that spans half ...

An asteroid discovered over 200 years ago which is roughly the size of Germany would have catastrophic consequences for life ...

Io is an incredibly active and extreme place, with glistening lava lakes and volcanic eruptions shooting sulfur and magma to huge heights.

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

The largest, Titan, is bigger than the planet Mercury ... Related: The 10 weirdest moons in the solar system Daisy joined Space.com in February 2022, before that she worked as a staff writer ...

Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon and the solar system's largest, is bigger than Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto, with a diameter of 5,268 kilometers.

If you look up on a clear night, the brightest and largest object in ... big enough to be considered planets in their own right. So exactly how many solar system moons have we found?

come after a decades-long battle to confirm which of the two biggest planets in the solar system have the most moons. UBC astronomy professor Brett Gladman, a co-author of a forthcoming paper on ...

Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.

The gas giant planets of our solar system have many moons ... latest haul around Saturn bring its total to 274. “It’s the largest batch of new moons,” said Mike Alexandersen at the Harvard ...