The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

Uranus and Neptune have 28 and 16 known moons, respectively. Despite not technically being a planet anymore, Pluto has five moons. The 128 new Saturnian satellites are all considered irregular moons.

Saturn was already the reigning champion in the moon department. Now, with 274, Saturn has more moons than all the other ...

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto turns out to have as much complexity as Mars or Earth, so much so that I ...

Our love horoscopes for March 17, 2025 predict a helpful truth coming to the surface when the Scorpio Moon aligns with Pluto, ...

As a "first responder" and record title holder of a spacecraft, New Horizons has already chalked up history-making observations as the first spacecraft to explore Pluto and its moons up close.

Pluto was always in a tough spot when it came to being a planet. Just 1,477 miles across, it's only one-fifth the diameter of Earth. It did have five known moons: Charon, Nix, Hydra, Kerberos and ...

Here's why people love it What time is the total lunar eclipse tonight? When to see the full Blood Moon in AZ Pluto is Arizona's official state planet Regardless of the debate about its status ...

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary ...