Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...

A new comet has been discovered. Now getting closer to the sun and expected to brighten over the next few weeks, comet C/2025 ...

Astronomers are racing to protect the dark skies as private companies seek to place large advertisements in Earth orbit ...

One of the great things about astronomy is that it’s always full of surprises, especially when it comes to comets — you just ...

The Russian company Avant Space deployed what it called the "first space media satellite" into Earth's orbit. This satellite ...

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

FARGO — The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has recognized 128 new moons in orbit around the planet Saturn, giving the ringed planet more known moons than the rest of the planets in the ...

Saturn has 128 more moons than astronomers previously thought - The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total of 274 ...

The International Astronomical Union recognized the discovery by astronomers from Taiwan, Canada, USA, and France on March 11. The team who discovered 107 of the new moons and helped confirm the ...