Saturn and Jupiter, the two gas giants, have long vied for the title of “moon king.” Over the years, astronomers have been ...

Saturn has seized the title of moon king. Astronomers have just discovered as many as 128 new moons orbiting Saturn. This ...

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

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a stunning and fashionable sight: the Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the traditional Mexican hat. With its wide, flat shape ...

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 ...

Because it's traveling without an interfering star, the James Webb Space Telescope was able to study a solitary, planet-like ...

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

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

A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.