Neptune’s moons have long provided evidence of a cataclysm four billion years ago. A new study suggests one moon may have ...

Dr Sarah Alam Malik suggests Saturn's moons Titan and Enceladus, and Jupiter's moon Europa, may host conditions suitable for life, challenging traditional views of the 'Goldilocks zone'.

Neptune has only been visited by one spacecraft, NASA’s Voyager 2 in 1989. Nereid was discovered 40 years earlier by Dutch ...

Nasa may revisit one of outer space’s thorniest questions ...

E very now and then on Reddit, somebody asks a fun question that demands an answer. This week it is the turn of user ...

Engineers are increasingly turning to the concept of "biomimicry" for the next generation of Mars robots.

Distance from Earth (logarithmic scale) - Moon 1 mi 10 mi 100 mi 1,000 mi 10,000 mi 100,000 mi Moon 1M mi 10M mi 100M mi 1B ...

The Solar System is the name given to the part of space that surrounds the Sun. Even though it is bigger than anything we can imagine, the Solar System is actually a very tiny part of the universe.

A new tiny ice world has been discovered beyond Pluto surrounded by a thin atmosphere, scientists revealed. The "mini-pluto" is thought to be the solar system's smallest object, but still has a ...

The four planets that are furthest from the Sun are known as the gas planets. They are named this because they are all made from gas. The four gas planets are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. You ...

Most people were taught that Jupiter is a gas giant, but that description barely explains what is really hiding beneath its clouds. According to the transcript, Jupiter’s outer gas layer is only the ...

The clouds are composed of sulfuric acid, and their sheer celerity puts them in a class above Earth’s. Unlike the ponderous, ...