As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

Astronomers have found signs that the small icy world Chiron, orbiting between Saturn and Uranus, may be forming a new ring ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, October 24The Moon passes 0.5° south of Antares at 9 P.M. EDT.

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

Recently, astronomers detected the presence of a relatively new quasi-moon called 2025 PN7, which appears to orbit our planet. The discovery of the object, also called Buwan, was published in Research ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and ...

Abstract: The proliferation of satellite mega-constellations, such as SpaceX’s Starlink and NewSpace initiatives, particularly CubeSat deployments, and their integration into terrestrial 5G/6G ...

For thirteen years, from 2004 to 2017, the Cassini-Huygens mission conducted a detailed survey of the Saturn system. It ...

The rings of Saturn are among the wonders of our solar system, with a diameter of roughly 175,000 miles (280,000 kilometers) ...

Astronomers have yet to find irrefutable proof for any natural satellites of exoplanets—so-called exomoons—but as ...

SpaceX's next version of Starship will be even bigger and more advanced than any iteration that has already launched 11 times ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope and other observatories suggests a supervolcanic exomoon may lurk around the giant ...