Quick, when you look at the night sky, how many moons do you see? It’s hard to believe, but some reports circulating on social media say there are two moons and there will be for several decades. One ...

Among other recent astronomical headlines, unusual online chatter is surrounding a "second moon" orbiting Earth, but the buzz doesn't describe the discovery quite right. Earth has only one true ...

Astronomers announced the discovery of 128 new moons orbiting Saturn on Tuesday. The moons are only a few kilometers in size. Saturn has more moons than any planet in our solar system. Astronomers ...

You may have heard a lot of online chatter about Earth's two moons recently, but that doesn't quite get the discovery right. Earth still only has one true natural satellite — our 2,159-mile-wide moon ...

The early evening eastern sky has had an absence of bright planets since Mars appeared in that part of the sky in November. Finally, a bright light appears in the southeast shortly before 10 p.m. and ...

New research shows that some frozen moons may hide boiling oceans beneath their icy shells, shaping strange surface features.