ESA is now planning a mission that can detect moons around planets outside our Solar System, those orbiting other stars. Everyone knows our Moon: lovers stare at it, wolves howl at it, and ESA ...

The year’s second total lunar eclipse saw Earth’s shadow obscure this weekend’s full moon as the home planet lines up ...

Scientists for the first time have spotted a moon-forming region around a planet beyond our solar system - a Jupiter-like world surrounded by a disk of gas and dust massive enough that it could ...

Scientists for the first time have spotted a moon-forming region around a planet beyond our solar system - a Jupiter-like world surrounded by a disk of gas and dust massive enough that it could ...

The video description also explains his process deeply and gets into a bit of trivia about what it would be like if these planets actually were as close as the moon.

For the first time, astronomers have captured an alien moon in the making. Two enormous Jupiter-like planets are orbiting a star about 400 light-years away — and one of them seems to be forming ...

I’m a physics instructor who has followed the current theories that describe why some planets have moons and some don’t. First, a moon is called a natural satellite.

Far-out destinations like moons, planets, and the International Space Station can now be summoned in web browsers via a feature of Google Maps called "Planets." ...

If giant planets in other star systems lose their moons, the freed objects could become “ploonets,” and current telescopes may be able to find them.

A new application from Google lets you explore moons and planets out in the solar system.

Between Saturday and Thursday evenings (Oct. 9 to Oct. 14), the moon will visit not one but three bright planets: Venus, Saturn and Jupiter.