Saturn’s moons have been the subject of a lot of astronomical attention over the years. They range in size from the ...

March is a great month for skywatchers. It starts with a lunar eclipse at 11:57 p.m. ET Thursday that should last for about an hour.

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

A ring or sphere could, apparently, be stable if surrounded by the right sizes and gravities of other stars.

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 sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...

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

The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision about 100 million years ago.

For centuries, Jupiter reigned as king of the moons. Initially, the Big Four, discovered by Galileo, and then as optics and ...

Scientists believe that the moons are remnants of larger objects shattered by ancient collisions, a glimpse into the chaotic early solar system.