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The number of planetary moons may also increase if we find more planets in the solar system. One such world is the elusive Planet Nine — a hypothetical giant planet that may lurk in the far ...
Uranus, the mysterious ice giant, has 27 known moons, each named after literary characters from Shakespeare and Alexander ...
Take a tour of the space volcanoes on other planets and moons across the Solar System, and find out how they differ from ...
These new discoveries cement Saturn’s place as the winner of the Solar System’s moon competition, with more confirmed moons than all of the other planets combined. But it hasn’t always been ...
A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is ...
The planet’s elusive aurorae are much colder than expected, which is how they evaded detection for so long.
How can Uranus be used to indirectly study its moons and identify if they possess subsurface oceans? This is what a recent ...
2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet ... Combination of Cosmic Processes ...
The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total of 274 moons, the most of any planet in the Solar System. The discovery has raised a lot of questions. How do you spot moons, and why hadn’t anybody ...