An extensive set of tables with the latest characteristics of the planets, their moon and ring systems, comets, asteroids, meteorites, and interplanetary space missions complete the text. New to this ...

19, 2024 — Scientists have unveiled groundbreaking research on the origins of lunar water, offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar ...

This came as an enormous surprise because it was unlike the solar system’s other planets and their moons. Voyager 2 was launched in 1977 to study Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune But the new ...

Hurt (IPAC), CC BY Our solar system is a particularly crowded place. Millions of objects move within it, whether they are planets, moons, comets, or asteroids ... When observing very distant objects, ...

When 'Oumuamua traversed our solar ... planet in the same way that some of the planets have captured moons. It all comes down to phase space. What would happen to our mature, sedate solar system ...

Credit: buradaki/Getty Images A mini-moon that has ... will peel away from our planet's orbit today (Nov. 25) as it prepares for a decades-long jaunt through the solar system.

Here’s how it works. Earth isn't alone in orbiting our sun; it's joined by a bunch of planets, moons, asteroids, and comets that we collectively call our solar system. But how much do you know ...

A mini-moon that has been orbiting Earth for the past two months will peel away from our planet's orbit today (Nov. 25) as it prepares for a decades-long jaunt through the solar system.