Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

Experiments suggest that processes in the interior of the moon could keep it swathed in an atmosphere that should otherwise ...

Hera spacecraft captured an extraordinary near-infrared image of Mars’ moon Deimos during a flyby of the Red Planet. This ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised discoveries from a team of astronomers led by Edward Ashton at the Academia ...

Saturn has decisively claimed the crown. With the discovery of 128 new moons, the ringed planet’s total count has soared to 274 — nearly twice as many as all other planets combined. Jupiter now trails ...

Saturn’s first known moon, Titan, was discovered by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens 45 years later ... When the Voyager 1 spacecraft passed by Saturn, it took images that were used to ...

Titan: Discovered on March 25, 1655, by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens. Ymir ... In 2010, the Cassini spacecraft detected a thin atmosphere — known as an exosphere — composed of oxygen ...

An image of Saturn taken on the Cassini-Huygens mission ... not to prioritize naming moons smaller than 1 kilometer unless a spacecraft visits them. But for Ashton and his team, the discovery ...

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

A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of ...

European space probe Hera flew past Mars on Wednesday on its way to Dimorphos on its planetary defence mission. During the flyby, the probe captured unique images of the Red Planet, as well as one ...