In March and April 2025, internet users shared a striking image that they claimed showed "Steeple Mountain," a massive point ...

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

YR4, which recently caused concern over the possibility of it impacting Earth, has been the subject of extensive tracking ...

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

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

YR4 is back in the spotlight. Brand new research has produced a better estimate of its size and orbit, which give it a 3.8 ...

Jupiter’s four largest moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were ... Regular moons tend to orbit their planets in nice ...

"Based on our projections, I don't think Jupiter will ever catch up," Ashton said. All of the new moons are irregular moons. Irregular moons follow wide, elliptical orbits and are often highly ...

With the new spottings, Saturn has usurped Jupiter which has 95 known moons, while Uranus (28) and Neptune (16) remain third ...

Saturn has surpassed Jupiter, which has 95 known moons, with the new sightings. Uranus (28), and Neptune (16) are still ...