This is the fourth comet Gröller has discovered, but given its extraordinary distance, it was the most exciting find, he says ...

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

Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the ...

Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons , as the International Astronomical Union recognised discoveries from a team of ...

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