One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at ...

This is where the rings came back into play. One possible explanation for their existence is the breakup of a moon that wandered too close to Saturn and was disrupted by the giant planet's gravity.

However, a new model suggests that the orbiting moons may be a lot younger than previously thought, with some forming only a couple of million years ago. A study, ...

It also raised a lot of interesting geological questions that we’d like to test.” 4 Pluto and Charon may hold a great deal of information on the far reaches of our solar system.

Only a short time later, still in 2023, the same astronomers who discovered the recent 128 moons discovered 62 moons orbiting Saturn. This placed the ringed planet firmly in the lead.

The full moon Aug. 19 will be both a supermoon and a blue moon. Aspiring astronomers can also try to spot the major lunar standstill. August to kick off four straight months of supermoons - Los ...