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A spherical rocky body being destroyed in a collision.

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Hundreds of new moons are revealing our solar system's violent history

The outer solar system once seemed like a quiet backwater. But a glut of tiny, strange moons with unruly orbits are coming into view, revealing hints of a surprising past – and the origin of Saturn's rings

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The rings of Uranus are even stranger than we thought

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Titan

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Titan’s strange plains may be explained by unusual weather

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Saturn’s rings may have formed after a huge collision with Titan

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Synchronised volcanic eruptions on Io hint at a spongy interior

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More than 100 moons were discovered in our own solar system in 2025

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computer-generated view of Mars at the boundary between darkness and daylight, with an area including Gale Crater

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Mars may once have had a much larger moon

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Enceladus’s ocean may be even better for life than we realised

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New moon discovered orbiting Uranus is its smallest one

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One half of the moon is hotter than the other

Anomalies in the moon’s gravitational field suggest our satellite’s insides are warmer on one side than the other – which means that its interior is asymmetric

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Saturn gains 128 moons, giving it more than the other planets combined

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Why we must investigate Phobos, the solar system's strangest object

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New Å®ÉúСÊÓƵ recommends Brian Cox's new series, Solar System

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Space

Huge new volcano has burst through the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io

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