The spacecraft carried out the longest commercial operation on the moon to date—and also made history during its rare chance ...

The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...

The Pleiades, Ptolemy's Cluster, the Large Magellanic Cloud — here's how to center the sky's brightest deep-sky wonders in ...

Saturn has decisively claimed the crown. With the discovery of 128 new moons, the ringed planet’s total count has soared to 274 — nearly twice as many as all other planets combined. Jupiter now trails ...

The International Astronomical Union formally recognised all of Saturn’s moons this week. The moons are yet to get names but ...

With an impact velocity of somewhere around 20,000 mph (32,000 km/h ... that material coalesced into its own solid object: the moon.

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.

Turns out, there’s a lot more floating around the planet Saturn than those famous rings. Space scientists announced last week they’ve discovered Saturn has 128 more moons, for a total of 274, far more ...

Sunbeams around the darkest part of the Earth's shadow result in red coloring when hitting the edges of said shadow just right. When aligned in a syzygy, all three planetary objects show us the ...

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

Ithacans willing to brave Friday with a little less sleep could clearly see the March 14 total lunar eclipse in most areas of ...