Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, ...

After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

After cataloging thousands of worlds beyond our solar system, astronomers are now closing in on a far rarer prize: a moon ...

Scientists have gotten a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons like the one orbiting Earth could potentially form. Using data from NASA’s James ...

New simulations suggest TRAPPIST-1e's possible methane atmosphere may be a false signal from its star, raising fresh ...

Many of the most interesting bodies in our Solar System aren’t planets, but the moons that orbit them. They have active volcanoes, hydrocarbon oceans, geysers, and moon-wide oceans buried under icy ...

How do moons form around gas giant planets? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated how circumplanetary disks ...

There are no confirmed exomoons, moons orbiting distant exoplanets in other solar systems. There are a few candidates, but none have passed the threshold and been accepted as confirmed. But they must ...

The James Webb Space Telescope measured a potential moon-forming disk encircling an exoplanet, NASA recently announced, inviting researchers to observe and study moon formation as it happens, while ...

After decades of searching, astronomers might finally be on the verge of discovering thefirst confirmed exomoon, a natural ...

In a recent Hot Take segment, the China Global Television Network recently released an interesting video detailing China's future plans for space. Titled "Earth 2.0? China's plan to find new Earth," ...

Scientists have gotten a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons like the one orbiting Earth could potentially form. "Moons likely outnumber planets ...