Gas giant Saturn has significantly extended its "who has the most moons in the Solar System" competition, with 11 more moons ...

Most people do not understand that the solar system contains more objects than they typically anticipate. Scientists have ...

Hunt for the names of the many moons surrounding our solar system's eight planets. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space ...

Saturn and Jupiter have welcomed new moons, boosting our solar system's total to 442. Saturn now boasts 285, while Jupiter ...

The newly discovered moons are "irregular" satellites, meaning they are small (averaging about 3 km across) and have distant, ...

When worlds collide…suns act squirrely. Astronomers have witnessed a rare and violent cosmic crash between two planets, and ...

The newly found moons — four for Jupiter and 11 for Saturn — were announced by the Minor Planet Center, which is the clearing ...

Oxygen isotope analysis of lunar soil shows meteorites delivered only a limited amount of water to the Earth–Moon system ...

Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) probe is on its (very long) way to Jupiter, and will finally arrive at the King of Planets ...

Provided they host thick, hydrogen-dominated atmospheres, moons orbiting free-floating exoplanets could retain much of the ...

Analyzing images of the moon’s darkest areas from ShadowCam, a NASA instrument on the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, the ...

NASA's Artemis II mission is sending humans back to the moon for the first time since the Apollo era. Here are the reasons ...