moons, Saturn and International Astronomical Union
Astronomers find Saturn has 128 more moons in rare discovery
Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised discoveries from a team of astronomers led by Edward Ashton at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total of 274 moons, the most of any planet in the Solar System.
Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...
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NASA Spacecraft Whipping Around Mars to Slingshot Itself Toward Jupiter's Mysterious MoonNASA's Europa Clipper is about to use Mars' gravitational pull to slingshot itself towards Jupiter's smallest moon later this week. The craft launched from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in October ...
March's full moon, known as the Worm Moon, will bring a stunning total lunar eclipse, turning the Moon a deep reddish hue in ...
For centuries, Jupiter reigned as king of the moons. Initially, the Big Four, discovered by Galileo, and then as optics and astronomy advanced, more and more, smaller and smaller bodies, until Big J ...
The RPWI consists of four 10cm diameter Langmuir probes for exploring the atmosphere around Jupiter's icy moons. Each probe is mounted at the end of three-meter-long deployable booms, enabling ...
If there was a contest for the most interesting moon in our solar system, Callisto would be a contender. Jupiter's second-largest moon has more impact craters on its surface than any other ...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft identifies over 40 enormous lava lakes on Io, shedding light on the extreme volcanism sculpting Jupiter’s moon.
A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.
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