Two new moons of Neptune, and one new moon of Uranus, have been discovered, taking each planet's total moon count to 16 and 28, respectively.

The Sun’s gravity holds all of these objects together ... other planets and moons – or even travel much further, away from our solar system. Space probes have been sent to observe the outer ...

An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...

The planets and moons then all rotate in the same direction. But only a few moons in our solar system were likely created this way. Scientists predict that Jupiter's and Saturn's inner moons ...

All of the ringed planet's ... In 2023, the IAU announced 62 confirmed new moons orbiting the ringed planet, making it the new moon king of our solar system. Edward Ashton, a postdoctoral fellow ...

Thus, when studying Enceladus, every detail really matters — which brings us to a new, very strange detail that scientists ...

“We can see that this body is completely covered with volcanoes over both poles and all across ... understand moons dominated by subsurface global oceans in our solar system, such as Jupiter ...

since several moons within our solar system exhibit evidence for containing the building blocks for life as we know it, specifically Europa, Titan, and Enceladus, and all of which orbit gas giants ...