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

Io is an incredibly active and extreme place, with glistening lava lakes and volcanic eruptions shooting sulfur and magma to ...

How can Uranus be used to indirectly study its moons and identify if they possess subsurface oceans? This is what a recent ...

with more confirmed moons than all of the other planets combined. But it hasn’t always been this way. Jupiter’s four largest ...

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

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

A “city-killer” space rock headed for a potential collision with the Moon likely originated in the asteroid belt near Jupiter ...

There were fears a giant asteroid the size of 59 Bonos was hurtling towards Earth and could wipe Ireland out with a series of ...

This study has the potential to help researchers better understand the formation and evolution of Uranus and its largest moons ... sounding to study Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, which is the ...

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