Astronomers using the mighty James Webb Space Telescope have captured direct images of four planets in a star system 130 light years from Earth — an astonishingly eagle-eyed feat of cosmic photography ...
The rings, believed to be made up of rocky and icy chunks that could be as large as a house, help separate Saturn from other ...
You thought Saturn's 146 moons were impressive? Think again. The ringed planet's moon count has nearly doubled with the ...
Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...
The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision ...
The moons were discovered by a team of astronomers using the Canada France Hawaii Telescope. Observations took place between ...
A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.
Saturn now leads the solar system with 274 known moons. Scientists say many moons formed from past collisions.
Saturn was already the reigning champion in the moon department. Now, with 274, Saturn has more moons than all the other ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was recently used to capture direct images of four Saturn-like exoplanets in a solar system 130 light-years away.
The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
In 2022, the Webb telescope detected unequivocal evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet called ...