On Sept. 17, 1789, the British astronomer William Herschel discovered Saturn's "Death Star" moon, Mimas. Of course, "Star ...

James Webb Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory captured new images of Saturn's moon Titan in November 2022. Credit: ...

The moon is near new phase this week, and clearer skies and cooler overnight temperatures means that this is also an optimum ...

A team led by scientists at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Colorado made 10 different 40-minute exposures of ...

Admire 8 beautiful Moon images from NASA Hubble, each capturing rare details of our closest cosmic neighbor., Technology & ...

And speaking of the break of dawn, that happens nowadays at around 5:15 a.m. local daylight time. And that's the time for ...

The space around Uranus just got a bit more crowded.Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope recently announced the ...

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explores the advances ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to bear fruit. Images captured by the floating watchtower revealed a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus. The discovery, made on February 2, ...

Like Uranus's other 28 moons, the newfound object spotted by JWST will be named after a William Shakespeare or Alexander Pope character.

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) hasn’t given it a name yet, but NASA has announced that astronomers discovered a new moon orbiting Uranus using images taken by the James Webb Space ...

Astronomers have discovered what they think may be another moon orbiting a distant dwarf planet called Quaoar. This small, ...