Satellites connect people around the world but they also interfere with astronomers’ views of the cosmos. There are ways to ...

Learn about the 128 newly discovered moons of Saturn, believed to be the remnants of collisions that occurred early in the ...

Nyx is the is the Ancient Greek goddess of the night.  Unlike her sister, Eos, the goddess of the Dawn, Nyx is a mysterious figure.

The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...

Astronomers have discovered 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the planet with the most moons with 274.The International ...

Saturn now leads the solar system with 274 known moons. Scientists say many moons formed from past collisions.

Astronomers are racing to protect the dark skies as private companies seek to place large advertisements in Earth orbit ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

You thought Saturn's 146 moons were impressive? Think again. The ringed planet's moon count has nearly doubled with the ...

The International Astronomical Union officially recognized 128 new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the new total up to 274 moons. The moons were discovered by a group of astronomers from Taiwan ...

Names of astronomical objects are governed by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Originally, all moons in the Solar System were given names from Greco-Roman mythology. But the large ...

This multitude of small, not very round objects are thought to be fragments of larger moons that broke apart in collisions ...