An international team of astronomers working with the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have discovered a whopping 128 more ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

An international team of astronomers working with the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have discovered a whopping 128 more ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has identified free-floating brown dwarfs in the Flame Nebula, some as small as two to ...

The smashups are thought to have occurred at least 100 million years ago, but the moons they created are new to astronomers.

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a vibrant star-forming region of our galaxy called the Flame Nebula. Brown dwarfs ...

Scientists believe that the moons are remnants of larger objects shattered by ancient collisions, a glimpse into the chaotic early solar system.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered complex atmospheric shifts in SIMP 0136, a free-floating ...

Canadian and other researchers have confirmed Saturn as the solar system’s undisputed “moon king," after discovering 128 more ...

Previous examinations using ground-based tools as well as the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes indicated SIMP 0136 was ...

The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope zoomed in on extremely faint ... Their mass can be as low as two to three times the mass of Jupiter, a gas giant over 300 times more massive than Earth.