A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 ...

Astronomers have been left puzzled by the discovery of an unusually large planet orbiting a remarkably small star, a cosmic ...

Jupiter joins Mercury in early twilight as Mars lingers with Leo after dark. Saturn is visible in the morning, meeting ...

Giant planets are not rare per se — after all, we have four in our own solar system. Such large worlds are, however, rarely ...

After 500 years, a powerful conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter will occur. Saturn will be retrograde and Jupiter will be ...

Doesn’t Jupiter have the most moons? What are they going to call all these moons? Are there more out there? And what exactly makes something a moon, anyway? These new discoveries cement Saturn ...

But this week, Jupiter has truly been left in the dust. Astronomers have just announced the detection of an additional 128 moons, brining Saturn’s total to an eyewatering 274. “This is a ...

How can fission-powered propulsion help advance deep space exploration, specifically to the outer planets like Jupiter, ...

Now three months past its conjunction with the sun in March, Saturn is currently well separated from the dawn glow. On June 1 ...

A new study proposes that seeding the orb’s underground ocean with microbes might help us learn how to make other worlds ...