The discovery of natural satellites on Saturn assists researchers in understanding the dynamics of orbits, resonances, and ...

Eleven of the new moons join existing groups of Jovian satellites, but one of Jupiter's new moons follows a unique, odd path. The giant planet Jupiter has been hiding something — or 12 things ...

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) captured a stunning view of Earth’s western hemisphere, with white clouds and snow, deep blue oceans, and green and brown continents. NASA ...

Jupiter’s skies can glow with lights more intense than anything on Earth. Its polar auroras shine when charged particles ...

A powerful solar storm has delivered a dramatic blow to Jupiter’s magnetosphere, revealing that even the largest planet in ...

Every three nights, it will produce a map of the entire southern sky filled with stars, galaxies, asteroids and supernovae — and swarms of bright satellites ruining some of the view. Astronomers ...

A trio of secretive Russian satellites launched earlier this year has released a mysterious object into orbit, sparking interest among space trackers and analysts. The three satellites ...

as in the case of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, or relatively inverse, as in the case of the satellites of Uranus and Nep-tune. It will also lead to more exact data relative to the mass of Mars.

Astronomers have sent artificial satellites (satellites that are manmade) to orbit several Solar System objects, including Jupiter, the asteroid Vesta and Mars. Polar orbits take the satellites ...