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Astronomers Spot New Tiny Moons Around Neptune and Uranus

WASHINGTON—Astronomers have found three previously unknown moons in our solar system—two additional moons circling Neptune and one around Uranus. The distant tiny moons were spotted using powerful land-based telescopes in ...

February 24, 2024BY The Associated Press

Stunningly Clear Image Showing Summertime on Saturn Captured by Hubble Telescope

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has beamed back an amazing photo showing summertime on Saturn. Hubble captured the image ...

July 30, 2020BY Wire Service

Saturn Is the Solar System’s ‘Moon King,’ With 20 More Spotted

Saturn is now being recognized as the "moon king" of our solar system, with astronomers spotting 20 more ...

October 10, 2019BY Reuters

Images of Pluto’s Moon Charon Show Huge Fractures and Hints of Icy ‘Lava Flows’

Since the New Horizons probe flew through the Pluto system on July 14, most of the attention has ...

October 6, 2015BY David Rothery

Global Ocean Makes Saturn’s Moon Wobble

By examining tiny wobbles of Saturn’s moon Enceladus—whose cosmic quavers are detectable only in high-resolution images taken by ...

September 17, 2015BY Blaine Friedlander

Get Ready for New Horizons’s Flyby of Pluto

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will fly through the Pluto system on July 14 at an angle of 46 ...

June 26, 2015BY Diana Lutz