Oct 2, 2015 · At half the diameter of Pluto, Charon is the largest satellite relative to its planet in the Solar System. Many New Horizons scientists expected Charon to be a monotonous, crater-battered world …

This would be the first such mission ever attempted in the Jovian system. So far spacecraft have landed on Venus, the Moon, Mars and Saturn’s moon Titan; landing on Ganymede would mark the sixth …

Mystery solved! How Saturn got its rings The new results also provide insight into the rings of other giant planets

Astronomers gather fresh clues about famous star’s everlasting nature Researchers suggest that Eta Carinae was originally a three-star system, which is what led it to its unusual behaviour

The Hayabusa probe, built by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), was launched on a Japanese M-V rocket on 9 May 2003 from the Uchinoura Space Centre in Japan. Its mission was to …