A quirk of planetary positions will make Saturn's 200,000-mile-around rings disappear for one night on March 23. Plan ahead, ...
NASA and SpaceX made another attempt on Friday to send a crew up to the International Space Station (ISS) and begin the ...
Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the ...
Saturn has decisively claimed the crown. With the discovery of 128 new moons, the ringed planet’s total count has soared to 274 — nearly twice as many as all other planets combined. Jupiter now trails ...
The smashups are thought to have occurred at least 100 million years ago, but the moons they created are new to astronomers.
Saturn just solidified its title as ‘moon king’ with an updated tally of 274 satellites orbiting the gas giant. The ...
A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.
March's full moon, known as the Worm Moon, will bring a stunning total lunar eclipse, turning the Moon a deep reddish hue in ...
Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...
“These moons are a few kilometers in size and are likely all fragments of a smaller number of originally captured moons that ...
The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...
Experiments suggest that processes in the interior of the moon could keep it swathed in an atmosphere that should otherwise ...