News

July's third quarter moon phase occurs at 8:38 EDT (0038 GMT) on July 17. At this moment, skywatchers in the northern ...
The moon, Saturn and Neptune will rise a little before midnight for those in the U.S. Heads up stargazers! The moon will rise close to Saturn and the ice giant Neptune in the eastern sky on the night ...
Watch the waning gibbous moon, Saturn, and Neptune meet in the night sky around midnight on July 16. The trio will travel ...
This time, an 81% illuminated moon will be lower in the sky, and to the left, of Saturn. The moon will rise about 11:00 p.m. EDT (though do check the exact time moonrise where you are).
Saturn has pulled ahead of Jupiter again in the moon discovery race, thanks to a batch of 20 newly reported outer moons. And you can suggest names for some of them.
Saturn gets close to the moon tonight, and some skywatchers in Florida, Central America and South America will see the ringed planet briefly disappear behind our lunar companion.
With the new spottings, Saturn has usurped Jupiter which has 95 known moons, while Uranus (28) and Neptune (16) remain third and fourth on the list. "Sure enough, we found 128 new moons.
Saturn’s moons have a violent past. Many of the relatively tiny moons, each of which are no more than 3 miles across, were likely part of larger bodies and then splintered apart as they collided ...
The findings push Saturn's moon count to 274, towering over the previous record-holder Jupiter, which has 95 moons. The recent discovery points to what astronomers have speculated for decades, ...
The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The International Astronomical Union officially recognized 128 new moons orbiting ...