Astronomers have uncovered the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe. This staggering ...

From the discovery of new celestial bodies to sketching out revolutionary medical treatments, scientists have pushed the ...

The first-stage booster flew for the 10th time with a recovery landing at Canaveral’s Landing Zone 1. Read more ... 1.8 billion miles to investigate Jupiter’s moon Europa to determine whether ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

Saturn has decisively claimed the crown. With the discovery of 128 new moons, the ringed planet’s total count has soared to 274 — nearly twice as many as all other planets combined. Jupiter now trails ...

A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.

“These moons are a few kilometers in size and are likely all fragments of a smaller number of originally captured moons that were broken apart by violent collisions, either with other Saturnian moons ...

The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...

Exoplanet hunters are particularly interested in rocky planets within habitable zones, the ideal distance from a star to sustain liquid water. Why? Because water is a prerequisite for life—and ...

Specific points of uncertainty and confusion remain, such as property rights for resources and material assets, data and intellectual property rights, priority rights and safety zones since ...