In March and April 2025, internet users shared a striking image that they claimed showed "Steeple Mountain," a massive point ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

How can Uranus be used to indirectly study its moons and identify if they possess subsurface oceans? This is what a recent ...

Wondering what there is to love about Jupiter? The Jovian giant has many reasons that are worthy of your affection, whether ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as ... system with the most moons. The International Astronomical Union officially recognized 128 new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

July 21, 2024 — Europa and Enceladus, icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn respectively ... b has the most highly elliptical, or eccentric, orbit of any known planet. It appears to be a juvenile ...

Fluorescent cave minerals are helping scientists explore how life could survive in harsh places like Europa. Far beneath ...

Io is an incredibly active and extreme place, with glistening lava lakes and volcanic eruptions shooting sulfur and magma to ...

But it hasn’t always been this way. Jupiter’s four largest moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were the first ever discovered orbiting another planet. They were spotted by Galileo ...

For instance, last year, the European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE ... its velocity to finally beeline it to Jupiter's orbit. "We come in very fast, and the gravity from ...