In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has ...

The year's most exciting discoveries included the site where a young George Washington stopped a friendly fire incident, the ...

Saturn has just pulled far ahead in the solar system’s moon race, with a fresh wave of detections pushing its tally to 274 ...

Among the solar system’s hundreds of known moons, few are as enticing as the handful that scientists believe have a global ocean lurking below their crusty surface. But two of these hidden oceans may ...

Small, icy moons might be boiling under their surface. Many moons in the outer solar system are thought to harbor subsurface oceans beneath their icy crusts. New computer simulations, reported ...

Our exploration of the outer Solar System has revealed a host of icy moons, many with surface features that suggest a complex geology. In some cases, these features—most notably the geysers of ...

Saturn's moon Mimas, just 250 miles wide, could have a liquid water ocean under its outer icy shell, according to new research led by Max Rudolph at UC Davis. If such moons are the right size, water ...

At the monastery in the On the Trail of the Traitor quest in The Outer Worlds 2, you'll find an observatory puzzle that requires you to turn three dials to unlock a secret room. You'll have to look at ...

The discovery of a new celestial object in the Earth's neighborhood has created a buzz online asking whether the planet now has a second moon in its orbit. Any thoughts that Earth is now going to be ...

The recently spotted asteroid 2025 PN7 appears to be the source of the rumor mill about Earth's supposed second moon. Earth has several quasi-moons that get their name due to the fact that they ...

Two more full moons, both supermoons, are expected before the end of 2025. The Beaver Moon will be visible on Wednesday, Nov. 5, and is named for when beavers begin sheltering for winter. December's ...