Scientists believe that the moons are remnants of larger objects shattered by ancient collisions, a glimpse into the chaotic early solar system.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

March's full moon, known as the Worm Moon, will pass into Earth's shadow on the night ... of the total lunar eclipse to catch a glimpse of Jupiter and Mars, according to NASA.

The discoveries bring Saturn’s total moon count to 274, nearly triple Jupiter’s and more than ... creating debris that was then drawn into Saturn’s orbit by the planet’s gravitational ...

Sky-gazers across the Western Hemisphere will be in for a celestial treat this week when the full moon appears to turn ...