The Latest Breaking News from Saturn

Just how rare are planetary alignments?

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured direct images of Neptune's elusive auroras for the first time.

This new moon of March 2025 will create a partial solar eclipse visible in the northeastern part of North America, much of Europe and Russia.

A new model that incorporates data gathered by the JWST could help scientists understand the composition and mass of objects in the distant Kuiper Belt and beyond.

Saturn's iconic rings will seemingly "disappear" from view this weekend as they align edge-on with Earth for the first time since 2009.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has directly imaged four planets orbiting the host star HR 8799 about 130 light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus.

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised discoveries from a team of astronomers led by Edward Ashton at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total of 274 moons, the most of…

Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the indisputable frontrunner for having the most moons in our solar system.

The grand total of Saturnian moons is now 274.

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Planet now has 274 moons, almost twice as many as all the other planets in the solar system combined