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Mars will be making its closest approach to Earth in two years, and thus, the mighty red planet, named for the god of war ...

NASA Voyager 1 probe discovers Saturn’s moon, Epimetheus. Saturn would be the last planet Voyager 1 would visit before ...

For a few brief evenings around February 28, every planet in our solar system will be visible at once, with Mercury making a ...

Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a ...

Credit: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI Unlike how scientists believe Earth's moon formed billions of years ago, Pluto and its biggest moon, Charon, didn't have a messy breakup. New computer simulations show ...

Pluto-Charon formation scenario mimics Earth-Moon system. ScienceDaily . Retrieved January 30, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 01 / 250107140904.htm ...

So how did Earth and Pluto get such large moons? Normally, planets like Mars, Jupiter and Saturn acquire moons by gravitationally capturing them, a process that wouldn't happen with larger moons.

It was just a rock, but when Timothy Lyons picked it up, he knew the Earth had stories to tell, and he wanted to find out ...

"We were definitely surprised by the 'kiss' part of kiss-and-capture. There hasn't really been a kind of impact before where the two bodies only temporarily merge before re-separating!" ...

Pluto-Charon Formation Scenario Mimics Earth-Moon System Jan. 7, 2025 — A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth ...