Plus: A solar eclipse and an occultation of the Pleiades as our satellite skims through several constellations in the sky ...

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

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

Sep. 3, 2024 — Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a researcher realized that the Solar System's biggest moon's axis has shifted as a result of the impact ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

Astronomers have successfully captured Neptune's auroras for the first time, utilizing the combined capabilities of the James ...

Dust off your old telescope on a clear night and look up. If you find Jupiter, you’ll likely see four small dots to the side of the gas giant: they are the Galilean moons, four of the 95 natural ...

For instance, last year, the European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) — which will also be exploring Europa, in addition to its larger cousins Ganymede and Callisto ...