SpaceX and other companies plan to launch tens of thousands of satellites, which could mar astronomical observations and pollute the atmosphere.

Satellites connect people around the world but they also interfere with astronomers’ views of the cosmos. There are ways to reduce these tensions.

The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...

Saturn surpasses Jupiter with 128 newly discovered moons, becoming the planet with the most moons in our solar system.

This multitude of small, not very round objects are thought to be fragments of larger moons that broke apart in collisions ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

Even before the recently announced moons, Saturn had more than anyone could reasonably keep track of. Now, astronomers have ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

Scientists have discovered over 100 new moons orbiting Saturn, raising its total to 274. These small rocky moons likely ...

The smashups are thought to have occurred at least 100 million years ago, but the moons they created are new to astronomers.