but astronomers will likely continue the trend of giving the new Uranian moons names from Shakespeare’s pieces, while the Neptunian moons will likely be named after goddesses from Greek mythology.

"Surprisingly, many of these so-called trans-Neptunian objects move on eccentric ... which orbit close to the planet on circular orbits, the irregular moons orbit the planet at a greater distance ...

However, many couldn’t be confirmed as moons because their orbits could not be definitively tracked. Ashton was able to revisit those findings thanks to advancements in discovery techniques and ...

Given the typical orbit of an observatory about L2, the observational baseline of ~1.5 × 10⁶ km between L2 and Earth results in an instantaneous parallax of ~10″–100″, even for the most distant of ...

regular moons, which are typically larger and have small, circular orbits close to the equator of their host planet; and irregular moons, which can be much smaller and have larger, more elliptical ...

“Why, a moon is a celestial body that orbits a planet,” you ... icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons as well. While some TNOs could ...