What can the pH level of the subsurface ocean on Enceladus tell us about finding life there? This is what a recent study ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

What processes during the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and even an ...

Saturn’s moon Titan has always stood out among the celestial bodies in our solar system. It is the only moon with a thick, ...

There are eight known planets, five known dwarf planets, and hundreds of known moons in our solar system, but only two of them have weather: Earth and Titan. Saturn’s moon Titan is almost ...

This is when the moon will be 221,917 miles from Earth, which is nearly 17,000 miles closer than the moon's average distance of 238,900 miles, EarthSky reported.

The new moon occurs April 27, and a day later Venus and Saturn will make a close approach to each other (known as a conjunction) in the predawn sky.

Night sky smiles down on Earth with crescent moon, Venus, and Saturn alignment By Robin Bradshaw , Staff writer April 23, 2025 Skywatchers: Here's what to know about the late April planet alignment.

Two of Saturn’s moons can be seen as bright dots in the very thin ring. ... Earth has one moon, Mars has two, Jupiter has 95, Uranus has 28 and Neptune has 16, for a total of 142 moons.

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far beyond any other planet in our solar system.

The Moon also periodically covers Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and the Solar System's more distant planets. A good resource on lunar occultations is In-The-Sky.org, which lists events where the Moon ...

A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the mystery of why no ringed moons exist today.