One particularly well-known fact about the moon is that it doesn't have much of a magnetosphere to speak of. There's no blanket to protect it from the solar wind ravaging its surface, blowing away its ...

Astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy that presents a unique ...

The results, published in February in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, show that under these conditions some exomoons could remain warm enough for liquid water — and ...