Uranus, the mysterious ice giant, has 27 known moons, each named after literary characters from Shakespeare and Alexander ...

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

A ring-crossing is where Saturn’s rings seem to disappear ... Regular moons are formed around a planet at the same time as the planet itself forms. Irregular moons are thought to be small planets ...

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. The Lyrids meteor shower will peak in Hawaii on April ...

How can Uranus be used to indirectly study its moons and identify if they possess subsurface oceans? This is what a recent ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has observed a planetary nebula designated Messier 57 (also known as NGC 6720), dubbed the Ring Nebula. As a result, ...

He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Ring founder Jamie Siminoff returned to Amazon this week, coming back to the company just about two years after he left, Bloomberg ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...

See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2025. Today, April 9, 2025, the moon is 11 days old and is in the Waxing Gibbous phase of its lunar ...