If you look up on a clear night, the brightest and largest object in the sky will probably be the moon. And unless you have a decent telescope, it is the only natural satellite you can see with your ...

The Earth's Moon is its only one, but scientists recently discovered a new celestial body that will be staying near the ...

Saturn has the most moons in the solar system at 274, with 128 recently discovered. Many of Saturn's moons have irregular retrograde orbits. Discovering small Saturnian moons could help in ...

A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

In 2005 the Cassini spacecraft visiting Saturn flew through something engineers didn’t expect—a fine water mist, spraying into space at 1,290 kilometers per hour through cracks in the surface of ...

The exploration of ocean worlds and icy moons presents a compelling narrative in our quest to understand the evolution and habitability of the Solar System. These bodies, which include Enceladus, ...

NASA’s Kepler observatory should be able to detect planetary moons – yet to be discovered – formed by far-away planetary collisions outside our Solar System, research by Amy Barr of the Planetary ...

Scientists think a process observed in Antarctic ice shelves must be at play on Europa and Enceladus. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...