A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.
News about our planet, explained. Sign up for USA TODAY's Climate Point newsletter. When the moon’s orbit brings it closer to Earth than usual, the cosmic combo is called a supermoon.
We are all familiar with our one Moon but other planets have different numbers of moons; Mercury has none, Jupiter has 95 and ...
Unlike the other planets in the solar system, Mars is distinctly triaxial, meaning it is an ellipsoid with different sizes ...
The mini-moon, an asteroid called 2024 PT5, was spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on Aug. 7. The space rock will make one complete orbit of our planet between ...
It is expected to follow a horseshoe-type orbit to become a “mini-moon” of Earth on 29 September only to return to a path orbiting the Sun about 57 days later on 25 November, according to the ...