Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...
Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...
The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...
NASA'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 ...
An international team of astronomers working with the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have discovered a whopping 128 more ...
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 it ...
“These moons are a few kilometers in size and are likely all fragments of a smaller number of originally captured moons that ...