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

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

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

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

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

But it hasn’t always been this way. Jupiter’s four largest moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were the first ever discovered orbiting another planet. They were spotted by Galileo ...

Starting at $14.99 plus taxes every four weeks you can access your Brandon Sun ... as all other planets in our solar system combined, and leaving Jupiter in a distant second place with 95 moons.

March's full moon, known as the Worm Moon, will bring a stunning total lunar eclipse, turning the Moon a deep reddish hue in ...

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 ...

The goal is to reach Europa, the smallest of the planet's four Galilean moons ... For instance, last year, the European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) — which will also ...