The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

Potential cuts of up to 50 per cent of NASA's science budget could mean cancelling missions including the Hubble Space Telescope and the Voyager probes ...

After scientists at Menlo Park’s SLAC national accelerator laboratory spent over two decades developing and constructing a ...

Even before the recently announced moons, Saturn had more than anyone could reasonably keep track of. Now, astronomers have ...

Over 50,000 submissions are made for images on U.S. stamps every year, and out of those, about 40 are turned into real stamps ...

This is the fourth comet Gröller has discovered, but given its extraordinary distance, it was the most exciting find, he says ...

Spherex (the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will survey ...

An international team of astronomers working with the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have discovered a whopping 128 more ...

Harvard astronomers have announced the discovery of over 100 previously undiscovered moons orbiting the planet Saturn.

Saturn just solidified its title as ‘moon king’ with an updated tally of 274 satellites orbiting the gas giant. The ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...