The wind on Saturn's largest moon is strong enough to blow around rocks of up to half a metre in diameter, which could put ...

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

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 ...

We’re getting close. Here are events. people, and things number 20-11 in this Ongoing History special series on rock in the 21st century.

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

MOSCOW-Russian Aerospace Forces, part of the country’s armed forces, launched a Soyuz rocket carrying a spacecraft for defence purposes, the state RIA news agency reported early on March 3 ...

A privately-built spacecraft has embarked on an unprecedented deep space mission to scout out an asteroid's potential for mining. The probe, called Odin, was launched on a SpaceX rocket alongside ...

‘It’s going to be very, very hard’Odin, named for the father of Thor in Norse mythology, will be one of the first spacecraft developed by a private sector company to travel to deep ...