The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The International Astronomical Union officially recognized 128 new moons orbiting ...

Poor Jupiter, once the reigning moon ... As per EarthSky, a team led by Edward Ashton of the Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taiwan first identified 62 Saturnian moons using the ...

Jupiter’s four largest moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were the first ever discovered orbiting another planet. They were spotted by Galileo Galilei more than 400 years ago, in 1610.

Look east around 4 a.m. local time, just before dawn, to see the slender form of the crescent moon climb above the horizon.

Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today.

Each of Jupiter's other 91 official moons has a diameter greater than 0.6 mile (1 kilometer) — but only 57 have names, and just eight have regular, nearly round orbits.

Catch the solar system’s largest planet satellite sharing the constellation Gemini the Twins with our Moon this morning ...

July 25 has been a date marked by remarkable events that have shaped history.One of the most profound events occurred on July ...

While the moons are visible through 7×50 binoculars, if you want to catch these events in detail and enjoy the beauty of Jupiter’s colorful clouds, a telescope with at least 6 inches of ...

It is expected to reach Jupiter in April 2030 to study Europa, the icy-surfaced moon, which is roughly the size of Earth’s moon and thought to have “ingredients for life,” such as water ...

Jupiter's second-largest moon has more impact craters on its surface than any other planetary body in the solar system, and it has tons of ice on its surface as well. ...

It is expected to reach Jupiter in April 2030 to study Europa, the icy-surfaced moon, which is roughly the size of Earth’s moon and thought to have “ingredients for life,” such as water ...