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 ...

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

In 2023, astronomers discovered 62 new moons of Saturn, bringing its total to 145 moons and surpassing Jupiter. More recently ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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