Behold, the giants! The Hubble Space Telescope has completed a decade of observing Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

Potentially habitable exoplanets are so incredibly common that astronomers have started to consider more unusual situations ...

January's full Moon peaks at about 5:30 EST on the 13th—earlier as you go westward, though; for example, in Houston, it peaks at 4:26 p.m., and in Sacramento the full Moon peaks at 2:26.

The first full moon of 2025, the wolf moon, will shine on Monday, Jan. 13, reaching its peak at 5:27 p.m. Each full moon carries a name rooted in Native American, Colonial, or European traditions ...

The rock-melting heat came from early gravitational interactions with the Earth, which stretched and squeezed the Moon, warming it up. This process is called "tidal heating." It is how Jupiter ...

The rock-melting heat came from early gravitational interactions with the Earth, which stretched and squeezed the Moon, warming it up. This process is called “tidal heating.” It is how Jupiter ...

The retro-inspired 'save them all' platformer Moons of Darsalon launched on Steam last year, and now developer Dr. Kucho! Games has announced that the Switch will get a slice of the throwback ...

The Moon is Earth’s most reliable partner in space, having orbited our world for around 4.5 billion years—nearly as long as our planet has existed. But new analysis of crystals from the Moon ...

NASA has solved a mystery surrounding Jupiter's moon that's had scientists stumped for almost 50 years. With our universe measuring up at about 93 billion light-years in diameter, there's a hell of a ...

Io, the innermost of Jupiter’s four large moons, is the most volcanically active body in our solar system. Its surface is dotted with hundreds of volcanoes, some of which erupt with towering plumes of ...

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