More than 150 moons orbit worlds in our ... solar system and points beyond in one view. Illustration by NASA/JPL Too small to be called planets, asteroids are rocky chunks that also orbit our ...

Those are particularly hard to spot, but now researchers have a new bevy of a different type of moon to explore: those that orbit around asteroids. It seems funny to think of it, but it’s ...

And among that data, it found that hundreds of them might have a little moon. If confirmed, it will end up nearly doubling the known number of binary asteroids. It is not uncommon for asteroids to ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has found evidence of more than 350 previously unknown moons orbiting asteroids within our solar system. The European Space Agency's (ESA ...