NASA's astronomers have recently discovered a ‘quasi-moon' orbiting within Earth's orbital neighbourhood. This quasi-moon ...

The Earth often gets a few visitors in the solar system, but some stick around for a while. Here's what to know about the ...

The universe has quasi-moons, mini-moons, and moonlets, but no official definition of what counts as a moon.

The Earth often gets a few visitors in the solar system, but some stick around for a while. Here's what to know about the ...

The Earth's Moon is its only one, but scientists recently discovered a new celestial body that will be staying near the planet for the next several decades.

The November full moon is upon us, heralding a spectacular natural light show as the largest supermoon of 2025 takes to the ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Turn a telescope to the eastern sky in the hours following midnight on Nov. 5 to see two colossal shadows darken the cloud tops of the gas giant Jupiter as the Galilean moons Io and Europa pass ...

A group of swirling storms at Jupiter's north pole are bouncing off each other, like bumper cars at the fairground. A flurry of new discoveries from NASA's Juno mission Jupiter have taken us beneath ...

It's largely agreed that the moon was created around 4.5 billion years ago when a protoplanet collided with early molten ...

The ocean on Ganymede may have more water than all the water on Earth. In this artist’s concept, the moon Ganymede orbits the giant planet Jupiter. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observed aurorae on ...