Saturn has just pulled far ahead in the solar system’s moon race, with a fresh wave of detections pushing its tally to 274 ...

Here on Earth, we are used to having just one moon orbiting around us, but it is well known that other planets have a lot more. Up until recently, the planet Uranus was thought to have 29 moons, but ...

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from Earth, may actually be easier than finding a white cat in a snowstorm. A ...

New research suggests that the interior of the Moon’s far side may be colder than the side constantly facing Earth, adding another layer of strangeness to this mysterious lunar region. Reading time 3 ...

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from Earth, may actually be easier than finding a white cat in a snowstorm. A ...

China’s Chang’e-6 mission, the first sample return mission to the far side of the Moon last year, made a fascinating discovery. While poring over the returned lunar samples, which arrived on Earth in ...

Recently, the online world has been abuzz with speculation that NASA has confirmed the discovery of a second moon in Earth's orbit. Take any such rumors with a hefty grain of salt. That includes the ...

A large mass of granite that has been slowly releasing heat has been discovered buried beneath a crater on the Moon. This is not science fiction. It is ancient volcanism. The Moon once had lava fields ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — You may have heard claims that NASA scientists confirmed the Earth has a second moon, but that statement isn't totally true. NASA did confirm there is a newly discovered ...

On Dec. 23, 1672, Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered Rhea, Saturn’s second-largest moon. Rhea is made up of rock ...

The discovery of a new celestial object in the Earth's neighborhood has created a buzz online asking whether the planet now has a second moon in its orbit. Any thoughts that Earth is now going to be ...