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

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

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

Kepler-16 b: The Real-Life Tatooine Science fiction fans have long dreamed of planets with two suns. And Kepler-16 b ... is that the auroras are driven by an orbiting planet or moon interacting with ...

With the new spottings, Saturn has usurped Jupiter which has 95 known moons, while Uranus (28) and Neptune (16) remain third ...

The moons are only a few kilometers in size. Saturn has more moons than any planet in our solar system. Astronomers have discovered 128 new moons orbiting Saturn, further solidifying the planet as the ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

Astronomers have discovered 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the planet with the most moons with 274.The International ...

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It used the opportunity to test some of its scientific instruments, snapping ...

Astronomers say they have discovered more than 100 new moons around Saturn, possibly the result of cosmic smashups that left debris in the planet’s orbit as recently as 100 million years ago.