This is Saturn's third-largest moon ... and as it orbits very close to the planet it completes three orbits in one day. This moon is constantly bombarded with meteors which has led to a dust ...

How many moons does Jupiter have? Scientists have discovered dozens of them, but the answer may be more complicated than it seems.

The Cassini orbiter, a collaborative mission by NASA, ESA, and ASI, provided us with a stunning legacy of Saturn and its intricate system of rings and moons.

Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.

For the most part, these moons (such as Europa or Enceladus) have been gravitationally bound to the gas giants Jupiter or Saturn ... 2:1 resonance (for every two orbits Io makes around Jupiter ...

A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system ...

What an autumn it’s been for stargazing all around the world! Between the frequent Aurora and Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas and all ...

As the moon orbits Earth, it charts an elliptical path ... Four will be visible in the evening hours—Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars—with the last one, Mars, rising at 11:22 p.m. Eastern ...

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, holds some of the solar system’s most intriguing mysteries. Among its 28 known moons ...