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

The view was acquired on Sept. 14, 2017 at 19:59 UTC (spacecraft event time). The view was taken in visible light using the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera at a distance of 394,000 miles (634,000 ...

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

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

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 ...

Huygens returned tantalizing data about this ... Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory’s Dragonfly. The Dragonfly spacecraft, a nuclear-powered octocopter drone that will be able to fly ...

Scientists of the National Research Council of Italy have succeeded in converting light into a solid state for the first time ...

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 ...