But in the grand scheme of the solar system, Earth's Moon isn't as big as you might think. Oberon is Uranus’s second-largest moon, and like most of its neighbors, it’s a cold, cratered chunk ...

If you look up on a clear night, the brightest and largest object in the sky will ... So exactly how many solar system moons have we found? The answer, it turns out, depends on your definition ...

Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the ...

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 satellites around the Solar System’s largest planet.

With a whopping total of 274 moons, researchers say Saturn’s tug of war with Jupiter for the title is settled once and for ...

The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...

The largest of Saturn's moons and the first to be discovered is Titan. It is the only moon in the solar system known to have a substantial atmosphere. Nitrogen and methane extend around the moon ...

The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision ...

In a paper published in National Science Review, a research team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences investigated impact ...

The first time you may have heard the term ‘dwarf planet’ was when Pluto got demoted to one in 2006 (RIP). However, we actually have six in our Solar System. Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris ...