Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision about 100 million years ago.

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

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

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

Space scientists have announced Saturn has 128 new moons. New findings have unveiled a new total of 274 moons, almost twice ...

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

The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...

In his final days aboard the space station in a mission that’s lasted six months, American astronaut Don Pettit has shared ...

Saturn has dozens of new moons, bringing it to a total of 274. All of the new moons are between 2 and 4 kilometres wide, but at what point is a rock too small to be a moon?

"Starman" peels away the layers of our cynicism to connect us with the feeling we had when space beheld a mystery that felt ...

A pair of extraordinary space missions that have been headed out of the solar system for almost half a century are getting a ...