Saturn has overtaken Jupiter as the planet with the most moons, according to US researchers. A team discovered a haul of 20 new moons orbiting the ringed planet, bringing its total to 82 ...

What you may not expect, however, is two moons lighting up the sky. But according to scientists, for a short period of time, ...

A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

Until scientists learn more then, here are seven of the most fascinating discoveries they’ve made about Saturn so far. The ...

It sheds most of the heat and light that makes life ... These later became some of the planet's 28 moons. Methane in Uranus' atmosphere gives the planet its blue-green tint. It also has 13 sets ...

The night sky on Tuesday will treat us to a partial lunar eclipse during a supermoon. It’s an astronomical wonder that almost ...

When approaching Earth, asteroids tend to do one of two things: Most of the time, they miss. Sometimes, they hit, leaving a ...

Earth about to pull tiny space rock into its orbit as temporary ‘mini moon’, scientists say - Space rock to orbit Earth for ...

A partial lunar eclipse will coincide with this week's Harvest Moon, which also happens to be an exceptionally bright and ...

Dexter defines The Galilean Suite as tone poems, but while Holst’s inspiration for The Planets was astrological ... to say that of all the moons, it’s Io—the most volcanic world in the ...

The accretion hypothesis proposes that the Moon was created along with Earth at its formation. The fission theory suggests Earth had been spinning so fast that some material broke away and began to ...