The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the most well-studied galaxies, but new findings suggest it might have been holding a ...

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

The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...

In 2017, Rousseau-Nepton, a member of the Innu Pekuakamiulnuatsh First Nation in the Saguenay – Lac-Saint-Jean region of ...

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...

By the end of the century, a shrinking atmosphere could create a minefield for satellites, like those deployed by SpaceX's ...

The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision about 100 million years ago.

A team of Harvard astrophysicists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky ...

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

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz has been named a recipient of the Research Corporation for Science Advancement’s (RCSA) Robert Holland Jr ...

Saturn just solidified its title as ‘moon king’ with an updated tally of 274 satellites orbiting the gas giant. The ...

In the ALMAGAL project, an international research team will analyze observations of more than a thousand "star factories" to ...