The Moon, Williams and Zugger say, has an orbit around Earth that isn't as neatly aligned with the equator as you might ...

Research suggests the Earth captured the Moon from space, rather than forming the rocky satellite from collision particles ...

How far away is the moon? But the distance between Earth and our closest neighbor is more nuanced than a single number. "The ...

Scientists have detected the gases carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on Pluto’s largest moon, ‘Charon’, which they said ...

As much as over 90 percent of the dwarf planet's crust could be water ice, giving some insight, the researchers believe, into ...

Charon, discovered in 1978, has the distinction of being the solar system's largest moon relative in size to the planet it ...

Researchers used observations from the Webb Telescope to identify carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of ...

In the outer reaches of our Solar System, 5.7 billion kilometres from the Sun, lies the dwarf planet Pluto. Smaller than ...

It is widely believed that the moon formed during a collision between Earth and a small planet known as Theia.

How did the Moon form? Was it from a collision, as has been the longstanding theory, or could it have been captured by the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide at the surface of ...

Pluto was long known as the ninth planet from the Sun. But after other similar objects were spotted in a region beyond ...