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

Take a tour of the space volcanoes on other planets and moons across the Solar System, and find out how they differ from ...

Saturn has "gained" a staggering 128 new moons in a groundbreaking discovery by astronomers in Taiwan. The find, made by a ...

The solar system is home to bizarre moons like Enceladus and Callisto, each unveiling nature’s wonders and some of science’s ...

Saturn now leads the solar system with 274 known moons. Scientists say many moons formed from past collisions.

Qatar Calendar House announced on Thursday that four planets will align with the Moon in the skies over Qatar during ...

What can a sample return mission from Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, teach scientists about planetary and satellite (moon) ...

Could microbes survive in the permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) of the Moon? This is what a recent study presented at ...

Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon and the solar system's largest, is bigger than Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto, with a diameter of 5,268 kilometers.

Back in 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on the moon, scientists knew of just 31 other moons in our ...

As of this writing Jupiter has 95 confirmed moons. They range in size from mighty Ganymede, the largest in the solar system at more than 5,200 kilometers across—wider than the planet Mercury!— ...

Are there more out there? And what exactly makes something a moon, anyway? These new discoveries cement Saturn’s place as the winner of the Solar System’s moon competition, with more confirmed ...