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

The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

As the moon moved through the shadow of the Earth, it was also being illuminated by light from the sun — causing the moon to ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Amateur astronomers have lost one of the jewels of the night sky – the rings of Saturn. The majestic planet has slipped from ...