In Roman mythology, Saturn is the father of Jupiter, so the new planet used the Greek name for Saturn's father - Uranus. When another new planet was announced almost 100 years later, it was named ...

Though English astronomer John Flamsteed was the first person to record observations of Uranus in the 1690s, he thought it was a star. Sir William Herschel gets the credit for identifying it as a ...

Chiron, an asteroid-comet hybrid discovered in 1977 by Charles Kowal, is currently in retrograde motion until January 2026.

MetaBallStudios Neptune, named after the god of the sea, has 14 moons. All of them represent Greek and Roman water mythology. The largest moon is Triton, which is nearly as large as Earth’s Moon ...

Neptune's new satellites, S/2002 N5 and S/2021 N1, are around 14.3 miles (23 km) and 8.7 miles (14 km) wide respectively. S/2021 N1 takes around 9 years to orbit Neptune, while S/2002 N5 takes ...

As a child, I loved Greek mythology. My first exposure to Greek mythology was “ Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods ” by Rick Riordan, a retelling of the Greek mythological stories in the sarcastic narration ...

Greek mythology is filled with adults behaving badly. When I was a child, these petty, manipulative deities made much more emotional sense to me than some remote Judeo-Christian god.