The smashups are thought to have occurred at least 100 million years ago, but the moons they created are new to astronomers.
An international team of astronomers working with the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have discovered a whopping 128 more ...
March's full moon, known as the Worm Moon, will bring a stunning total lunar eclipse, turning the Moon a deep reddish hue in ...
The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...
Astronomers have discovered 128 new moons orbiting Saturn, making its total 274 moons. This discovery surpassed Jupiter's ...
The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...
“These moons are a few kilometers in size and are likely all fragments of a smaller number of originally captured moons that were broken apart by violent collisions, either with other Saturnian moons ...
Scientists believe that the moons are remnants of larger objects shattered by ancient collisions, a glimpse into the chaotic early solar system.
There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. October 4, 1957 - The Soviets launch Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial ...
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 ...
UChicago astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard’s Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth.
Unistellar, a French company, exclusively makes smart telescopes and has been selling them since 2020. The Odyssey Pro and ...