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

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

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

Sep. 3, 2024 — Around 4 billion years ago ... optics capabilities of the Large Binocular Telescope, astronomers have captured a volcanic event on Jupiter's moon Io at a ...

Fluorescent caves deep below America show how alien life could exist on one of Jupiter's moons, say scientists. The chemistry ...

Jupiter’s four largest moons – Io ... Solar System were given names from Greco-Roman mythology. But the large number of moons, particularly of Saturn and Jupiter, means the IAU has expanded ...