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The July full moon, also known as the Buck Moon, occurs on July 10. It will share the evening sky with Mars and Saturn.
Saturn has the most moons of any other planet in the solar system. Here, we explore some of the 274 moons that orbit the ringed planet.
There will be several chances to see the shadow of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, pass across the ringed planet's Earth-facing ...
A mere decade ago, astronomers knew of just 62 moons around Saturn. Astronomer Edward Ashton is no exception, even though he has helped to discover 192 of them—he thinks that’s the total ...
Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...
With 128 new moons for Saturn, it might take a while to come up with names that follow the IAU rules. Maybe we’ll even see the addition of different mythologies.
He fell into hunting for Saturn’s moons in 2018, when his then academic adviser suggested the project for his Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia. It has been a fruitful search.
A new study proposes that seeding the orb’s underground ocean with microbes might help us learn how to make other worlds habitable ...