Astronomers have found four new moons orbiting Jupiter and 11 new moons around Saturn.

A new set of tiny moons has been identified around Jupiter and Saturn, quietly increasing their already vast satellite ...

Jeremiah Horrocks also proved that gravity's actions were not limited to the Earth, Sun and Moon ...

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals active volcanoes on Io in unprecedented detail thanks to an innovative technique.

There is a category of planet that belongs to no star. It was thrown clear of its solar system early in the chaos of ...

This week, among a lot of other important findings, we learned that emperor cichlid fish have gaze sensitivity and dislike it ...

The traditional Habitable Zone (sometimes called the Goldilocks zone) is kind of like a campfire. If you sit too close, you ...

Could moons beyond our solar system support life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Soci | Space ...

A total lunar eclipse is the highlight of the month. For planetary action, Jupiter is well placed most of the night and there are many events involving its Galilean moons. Soon after sunset, ...

The newly identified objects are small, distant moons, likely only a few kilometers across, and belong to a class known as ...

According to the space agency's tracking, the rock is hurtling through space at more than 21,500 miles per hour.

New observations have ruled out the chances of an asteroid hitting the moon in 2032, according to scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope.