YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

Saturn has 128 more moons than astronomers previously thought - The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total of 274 moons. ... We crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid’s moon in 2022.

The closest the Earth ever comes to Saturn is about 746-million miles, so it’s giant leap to even pick out a few of its moons from this distance, let alone tracking 274 separate moons in orbit.

We crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid’s moon in 2022. Earth has had a few mini-moons, some only a couple of metres in size. The line of what is and isn’t a moon is a bit hazy.

Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, measures 3,200 miles, or 5,150 kilometers, ... An Unusual Asteroid: China’s robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, ...

Feb. 13, 2025 — Scientists are studying Saturn's moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, ... Sep. 3, 2024 — Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede.

There are plenty of moons orbiting around the planets in our solar system — Saturn, for example, has well over 100 known moons — and astronomers believe that planets outside our solar system ...

Saturn is known for its stunning rings and its many moons (four seen here), but they aren’t the planet’s only companions. Its first known Trojan — an asteroid that shares the planet’s ...

A team of scientists — including a Canadian from the University of British Columbia — have identified an additional 128 moons orbiting the ringed planet, bringing Saturn's total moon count to 274.

Asteroid or comet slammed into moon 3.8 billion years ago; Rocky debris caused by impact carved out two canyons; ... Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - that is thought to have happened at the time. ...

An undated artistic rendering shows an asteroid or comet striking near the moon's south pole about 3.8 billion years ago, an impact that carved out two large craters. ... Saturn, Uranus and ...