The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The International Astronomical Union officially recognized 128 new moons orbiting ...

that are captured by a planet as it finishes forming. They are then broken into pieces by collisions. Regular moons tend to ...

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

The moon dims, the meteors fly, and the planets dance—these are the most exciting celestial events happening this month.

Aside from the moon, Mercury is the fastest-moving planet in the solar system ... Thomas explains further, "It also aligns with how one embraces their utmost authenticity and eccentricity." ...

All of the 128 new moons are “irregular moons”, objects captured by their host planet early on in the history of the solar system. “These moons are a few kilometers in size and are likely all ...

While searching for a hypothetical planet at the far edges of our solar system known as Planet Nine or Planet X, a team of astronomers discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter. That brings the total ...

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

And some of those moons are so large that if they were orbiting around the sun, rather than the planets, they would count as planets in their own right. So for example, Saturn's largest moon ...

Remote sensing technologies have revolutionized our understanding of terrestrial planets, moons, and other small bodies. With the resurgence of ...

They are then broken into pieces by collisions. Regular moons tend to orbit their planets in nice, circular orbits around the equator. Irregular moons typically orbit in big ovals further away ...