Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with ...

Mars is known as the 'Red Planet.' Learn about its reddish hue, caused by iron oxide, its position as the fourth planet from ...

The Red Planet will be at its closest point to Earth, also known as perigee, on Jan. 12 and will be exactly opposite the sun ...

For decades, astronomers have tried to determine how Pluto acquired its unusually large moon Charon, which is about half the ...

Mars currently has two satellite moons – Phobos and Deimos – the twin sons of Ares, the god of war (Mars in Roman mythology) ...

Back during the formation of the solar system, they may have had moons that got knocked away by collisions with other space ...

Unlike Earth, Mars has two moons Phobos and Deimos which are thought to be captured asteroids. The atmosphere of Mars is thin ...

Mars' snow is made of carbon dioxide ice, not water ice. During the Martian winter, temperatures can drop to as low as minus ...