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

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the sun, with its shadowed side pointing towards us ... reflecting off the lunar surface. Space.com's skywatching columnist Joe ...

Inverse sat down with space engineer and sci-fi author Gentry Lee about his new documentary 'Starman,' and his thoughts on ...

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

On the night of March 13 or early March 14, the Moon will transform into a stunning red orb as it moves into Earth's shadow ...

In a lunar occultation, the Moon completely covers a star or planet as it moves across the sky. The object seem ...

At TEFAF Maastricht 2025, Old Masters meet Minimalism, and medieval armor stands alongside Warhol and Art Deco. See ...

A quirk of planetary positions will make Saturn's 200,000-mile-around rings disappear for one night on March 23. Plan ahead, ...