Mars currently has two satellite moons – Phobos and Deimos – the twin sons of Ares, the god of war (Mars in Roman mythology) ...

Pluto's big moon Charon may have a different origin story than scientists suspected. New research suggests the two bodies ...

For circumbinary exomoons, our research shows that it would be best to search in systems that have a wide binary separation, as stable moons were able to orbit at up to 10% of their planet's hill ...

Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour “kiss-and-capture” encounter after a grazing ...

Pluto and Charon are in a region of the outer solar system beyond Neptune called the Kuiper belt, which makes them both rocky ...

“Because Pluto is rotating rapidly prior to the collision, and because Charon lies mostly outside of their corotation zone, ...

The presence of a North Pole star is a coincidence that has saved lives and perhaps changed history, but is it shared across ...

New research sheds light on F-type stars. Could these hot and massive stars be the key to finding habitable planets and ...

This "kiss-and-capture" event offers a new understanding of how moons are captured and helps scientists learn more about how ...

Simulations suggest Pluto and its largest moon may have gently stuck together for a few hours before Charon settled into a ...