The view was acquired on Sept. 14, 2017 at 19:59 UTC (spacecraft event time). The view was taken in visible light using the ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

Experiments suggest that processes in the interior of the moon could keep it swathed in an atmosphere that should otherwise ...

A theory involving a "mushy zone" of ice along the moon’s fissures could explain the enormous plumes erupting from its south ...

"Our Sun (Sol) is marked by a black hexagon, and its orbital path is indicated by a grey solid line (top row only). Alpha Centauri's location and path are shown by a yellow star and a solid blue line ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017, took the dramatic image of the rings’ shadows on Saturn shown above. The major parts of Saturn’s inner massive rings are ...