And unless you have a decent telescope, it is the only natural satellite ... big enough to be considered planets in their own right. So exactly how many solar system moons have we found?

Saturn has surpassed Jupiter, which has 95 known moons, with the new sightings. Uranus (28), and Neptune (16) are still ...

Known as SIMP 0136, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope caught a glimpse of it floating through the universe all by ...

The composite image shows seven of the solar system's planets from ... (arguably, 8) is a feat that to my prior knowledge has not been achieved before," Dury told Live Science in an email ...

Lots of us look up at the night sky with wonderment, asking how humans are able to explore the universe. Tracy Drain, a ...

A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...

A once-in-a-lifetime experience; nowhere else in Europe can visitors touch a fragment of the Moon, snap a selfie holding a ...

On February 28, a rare and fleeting moment will occur when all planets in our solar system will be visible in the night sky. Following the alignment of Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ...

Space scientists have announced Saturn has 128 new moons. New findings have unveiled a new total of 274 moons, almost twice ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

taking its tally of moons to 274 -- the most for any planet in the Solar System. International Astronomical Union recognised the discovery made by a team of astronomers led by Edward Ashton at the ...

Chinese scientists, using lunar soil samples brought back by Chang'e-6, have determined that the Moon's oldest and largest impact crater, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin, was formed 4.25 billion ...