Getting from Earth to space isn’t just about speed—it’s about planning the right trajectory. The Moon, our closest neighbor, ...

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

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

Saturn has seized the title of moon king. Astronomers have just discovered as many as 128 new moons orbiting Saturn. This ...

Sep. 19, 2024 — By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's moon Io -- the most volcanically active location in the solar system -- astronomers have been able to study a fundamental ...

“These moons are a few kilometers in size and are likely all fragments of a smaller number of originally captured moons that ...

It also doesn’t look like any of Jupiter’s larger moons are going to crash into one another for the foreseeable future, which will leave Saturn the moon-collecting champion for a very long ...

Jupiter and Saturn have been locked in a battle ... it pulled a few moderately large moons into its orbit. Over the preceding millennia, those moons have collided from time to time, breaking ...

March's full moon, known as the Worm Moon, will bring a stunning total lunar eclipse, turning the Moon a deep reddish hue in ...