The long nights of December are an astronomical delight. The early evening sky hosts Saturn as the main feature, along with ...

Far from the warmth of the Sun, some of the coldest-looking worlds in the solar system may be hiding the hottest surprises.

A provocative theory is gaining new support today. Scientists suggest atom-sized black holes may move through Earth. These ...

Eight distant worlds hold secrets that still puzzle scientists and spark endless curiosity. Each moon offers a strange allure ...

The outer planets of the Solar System are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn’s moon Enceladus, are ...

Thirty years ago, in 1995, we visited Titan's main factory in Hosur, near Bangalore – since renamed Bengaluru. We were amazed ...

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun.

The Moon is not, in fact, a giant cosmic wheel of Gouda. In a landmark paper published in Nature, researchers from the French National Center of Scientific Research delivered a hard truth: the Moon is ...

Scientists from NASA and Chalmers University have discovered that incompatible substances can mix on Titan’s icy surface, breaking the “like dissolves like” rule of chemistry. Under ultra-cold ...

Four astronauts are continuing with their intense training for the Artemis II mission that will fly them around the moon and back in a 10-day voyage. NASA’s huge Space Launch System (SLS) rocket will ...

This artist's concept of a lake at the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan illustrates raised rims and rampart-like features as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Saturn’s ...