So far, humanity has yet to find its first "exomoon"—a moon orbiting a planet outside of the solar system. But that hasn't ...

The moons were discovered by a group of astronomers from Taiwan, Canada, the United States, and France. Between 2019 and 2021, they used the Canada France Hawaii Telescope to repeatedly monitor the ...

Uranus has 29 moons orbiting it. The first two moons Herschel spotted in 1787 were Oberon and Titania, and they are Uranus's largest moons. There is another Uranus moon that the James Webb Space ...

Free-floating, planetary-mass objects that are just drifting carefree through the galaxy, untethered and starless, appear to be able to generate their own systems of moons, like a planetary system on ...

Forty light-years away, seven Earth-sized planets orbit around a dim red dwarf star in one of the most tightly packed ...

Since around the time he began his Ph.D. studies in 2008, East Texas A&M University professor and astrophysicist Billy Quarles has been interested in moons. In a recent paper co-authored by Quarles, ...

Many of the most interesting bodies in our Solar System aren’t planets, but the moons that orbit them. They have active volcanoes, hydrocarbon oceans, geysers, and moon-wide oceans buried under icy ...

The team of astronomers behind the find suggested it could help us better understand planet and moon formation in our solar system and beyond the Milky Way. The team was able to make the first-ever ...

Universe Today reports on a new telescope proposal that could help astronomers detect Earth-sized exomoons, explaining current limits, future technology, and why moons around distant planets matter ...

Saturn reigns supreme when it comes to the number of moons orbiting any solar system planet. Including the 128 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the ...