The Solar System is a vast and mysterious realm, filled with planets, moons, asteroids, and icy bodies waiting to be ...

Saturn and Neptune rose with the Moon on Wednesday, 16 July 2025, creating a rare sky event believed to carry emotional and spiritual significance for certain zodiac signs.

Several planets stand still in the sky, Titan’s shadow transits Saturn, and Venus gives Taurus a second eye in the sky this ...

Neptune is called an “ice giant” because it’s mostly made of a thick, slushy mix of water, methane, and ammonia, which ...

With the release of its first images this month, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun a 10-year mission to help unravel ...

Scientific American spoke with the astronomer who has contributed to the discovery of two thirds of Saturn’s known moons ...

Jupiter’s four largest moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were the first ever discovered orbiting another planet. They were spotted by Galileo Galilei more than 400 years ago, in 1610.

Triton, Neptune's largest moon, is a unique, icy world with a retrograde orbit (opposite to Neptune's rotation), and is thought to be a captured Kuiper Belt Object, potentially harboring a subsurface ...

What counts as a Moon? All 128 of Saturn’s new moons are tiny—just a few kilometres across. But if something that small counts as a moon, where do we draw the line?

You thought Saturn's 146 moons were impressive? Think again. The ringed planet's moon count has nearly doubled with the official recognition of 128 new Saturnian moons, bringing its total to an ...