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

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

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

Discovering small Saturnian moons could help in understanding more about Saturn and in future resource-mining. The ...

As well as some of the darkest skies on the U.S. East Coast, it's also the nation's southernmost point. At 24.5 degrees north ...

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

Wondering what there is to love about Jupiter? The Jovian giant has many reasons that are worthy of your affection, whether ...

Our host, Tim Khan at the Southern Cross Astronomical ... designed for planets — and shows us the shadow of Jupiter's moon Ganymede crossing the clouds of the giant planet.

Back in 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on the moon, scientists knew of just 31 other moons in our ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

What's on and in a star? What happens in an active galactic nucleus? Answering those questions is the goal of a proposed ...

The Odysseus spacecraft made a rough landing on the moon last year, toppling over and rendering much of its equipment unusable, but an onboard NASA radio telescope called ROLSES-1  was able to make so ...