A new set of tiny moons has been identified around Jupiter and Saturn, quietly increasing their already vast satellite ...

The newly discovered moons are "irregular" satellites, meaning they are small (averaging about 3 km across) and have distant, often eccentric orbits.

The latest discoveries have pushed Saturn’s moon count to 285, and Jupiter’s to 101, highlighting rapid progress in deep-space observation.

Most people do not understand that the solar system contains more objects than they typically anticipate. Scientists have confirmed for many years that Jupiter and Saturn possess multiple ...

Astronomers have found four new moons orbiting Jupiter and 11 new moons around Saturn.

It's hard to imagine Saturn without its glorious, extensive, complicated rings. Yet, when the Cassini probe arrived to study the planet in 2004, it made a curious discovery: the ice chunks and ...

The Solar System is a weird place filled with incredible physics and geological oddities that often break down in human terms. The way we learn the order of the planets is the classroom version of ...

Two faraway worlds in the solar system are about to appear rather close to each other in the night sky on Monday. The first planet from the sun, Mercury, and Saturn, the second of the gas giants in ...