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

Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...

Astronomers stunned to find Saturn has 128 more moons in rare discovery - The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total ...

Saturn now leads the solar system with 274 known moons. Scientists say many moons formed from past collisions.

The solar system was packed with 50 to 100 protoplanets billions of years ago. Not all of them lived to tell the tale of the ...

Astronomers have obtained detailed images of two protoplanets forming around the PDS 70 star system, located 370 light-years ...

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

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

Additionally, China is also investing in a human lunar program, seeking to land its own astronauts on the surface of the Moon ...

Planets don't get much more iconic than Saturn. But if you managed to see it through a backyard telescope right now, you wouldn't see its rings.

Firefly Aerospace’s successful moon lander has yielded a trove of data that scientists will pore over for years.

It noted that knowing the formation time of the 2,500-kilometer-wide SPA basin, which is located on the moon's far side, ...