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

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

As Galileo watched them night after night he was able to discern their separate orbits around the planet. The exhibition includes pages from Galileo’s log book where he records the moons ...

orbits Jupiter from about 1.2 million miles away. The rocky world, discovered in 1610 by Italian Renaissance man Galileo Galilei, has earned a reputation as the most heavily cratered moon in our ...

Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander has a payload which will attempt to acquire a GPS signal from the moon, revolutionizing ...

An American commercial company became the first to stick a perfect moon landing early Sunday when Firefly Aerospace sent its Blue Ghost lander down to the surface.

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College holds weekly public viewing during spring semester. Check their website ( or call the information line (804-752-3210) for dates and times.

By utilising communication signals for positioning and calculating the earth’s gravitational field, real-time observation of weather phenomena is now ...

For example, satellites such as the GOES-R NOAA mission, which orbits in a geostationary orbit ... “It’s going to receive, process, and track GPS and Galileo signals in transit all the ...