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

The decision comes as the Voyager spacecraft face diminishing power supplies due to the gradual decay of their radioactive ...

NASA’s Webb Space Telescope was finally able to capture bright auroras on Neptune—the most distant planet in our solar system ...

The rings, believed to be made up of rocky and icy chunks that could be as large as a house, help separate Saturn from other planets in our solar system. They’re also about to perform a vanishing ...

Saturn has 274 moons recognized by the International Astronomical Union. The number of moons increased substantially in March 2025 when 128 new moons were discovered by a team led by Edward Ashton ...

Voyager 2 was launched on August 20, 1977, on a trajectory toward the solar system’s gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn, and explored the icy giants Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 1 is more than 15 ...

Using Webb’s near-infrared spectrograph, astronomers have captured new images of Neptune that finally reveal the planet’s ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

After nearly 36 years of searching, astronomers have finally confirmed Neptune has auroras, thanks to data from the James ...

"It was so stunning to not just see the auroras, but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me." ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a detailed image of Neptune's auroras, making it the first observatory to do ...