The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

Once its rings vanish from sight in March 2025, Saturn will look like a pale yellow sphere through most telescopes.

Harvard astronomers have announced the discovery of over 100 previously undiscovered moons orbiting the planet Saturn.

Experiments suggest that processes in the interior of the moon could keep it swathed in an atmosphere that should otherwise ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

The short answer is that you would weigh roughly one-sixth your Earth weight on the Moon. So if your bathroom ... equation for figuring out the force of gravity almost 350 years ago.

The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...