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 ...

The goal is to reach Europa, the smallest of the planet's four Galilean moons ... For instance, last year, the European Space ...

Anjalika Lobo, 33, walked from her apartment to the event where she met her friend Katy Maravala, 35. Both women expressed that in a city that can feel so “sceney,” Star Party offered a “low-key” ...

Inside Wind Cave the scientists found that chemicals fossilised within the rocks shine in brilliant hues of pink, blue, and ...

But it hasn't always been this way. Jupiter's four largest moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were the first ever ...

Fluorescent caves deep below America show how alien life could exist on one of Jupiter's moons, say scientists. The chemistry in Wind Cave, South Dakota, means that, under an ultraviolet (UV ...

Jupiter and Saturn have been locked ... that around the time Saturn was forming some four billion years ago, it pulled a few moderately large moons into its orbit. Over the preceding millennia ...