In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

For centuries, Jupiter reigned as king of the moons. Initially, the Big Four, discovered by Galileo, and then as optics and ...

The International Astronomical Union formally recognised all of Saturn’s moons this week. The moons are yet to get names but ...

“These moons are a few kilometers in size and are likely all fragments of a smaller number of originally captured moons that were broken apart by violent collisions, either with other Saturnian moons ...

All of the newly discovered moons are classified as "irregular moons," which are objects captured by Saturn early in the ...

Scientists believe that the moons are remnants of larger objects shattered by ancient collisions, a glimpse into the chaotic early solar system.

The Flame Nebula, located 1,400 light-years from Earth, is a region where many stars are forming and is less than a million ...

Saturn now has 274 moons after scientists discovered 128 new moons using advanced telescopes, a report has claimed.

As the SpaceX Crew-10 spacecraft prepares for its launch from the Kennedy Space Center next Wednesday, commanded by Spokane’s Col. Anne McClain on her second mission to the International Space Station ...

The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...

Organisms known as extremophiles have been found inhabiting a range of extreme conditions on Earth, including inside our ...

Using data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter's highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in ...