Editor's note: This article was updated March 25 at 11:40 a.m. ET to account for the recent discovery of new moons around Saturn and Jupiter. The total number of planetary moons and small-body ...

New research suggests the moons of Jupiter and Uranus may hint that our planetary neighborhood once had a third ice giant.

Looking at the Solar System, Jupiter and Uranus both have plenty of irregular moons. In supercomputer simulations, the ...

Jupiter has 79 moons and is known as the 'king of the planets'. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Jupiter is the largest planet in ...

The early solar system may have been far more chaotic than we ever imagined. A new study published in Icarus suggests that ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

New observatories and spacecraft missions are probing environments in our solar system that could potentially host life but ...