This placed the ringed planet firmly in the lead. Elsewhere in the Solar System, Earth has one moon, Mars has two, Jupiter has 95, Uranus has 28 and Neptune has 16, for a total of 142 moons.

Uranus, the mysterious ice giant, has 27 known moons, each named after literary characters from Shakespeare and Alexander ...

These moons are named for two sons of the Greek ... But for now, no liquid water has been spotted on the Red Planet. Humans have never been to Mars, but we've been studying it for hundreds of ...

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Saturn surpasses Jupiter with 128 newly discovered moons, becoming the planet with the most moons in our solar system.

But centuries ago the first telescopic observations of other planets revealed that many have moons as well; Jupiter has four giant, easily seen satellites, and Saturn has several that are visible ...

The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total of 274 moons, the most of any planet in the Solar System. The discovery has raised a lot of questions. How do you spot moons, and why hadn’t ...

Astronomers have taken unprecedented images of baby planets in a distant star system. The planets are still surrounded by rings of gas and dust from which moons appear to be taking shape.

Astronomers have been fascinated by Saturn's magnificent rings since Galileo peered through his telescope in 1610 and spotted bulges either side of the planet. He suspected they were moons but ...

Mars and the moon will also be in conjunction tonight. If you're lucky enough to have clear skies tonight, you can catch a ...

Space scientists have announced Saturn has 128 new moons. New findings have unveiled a new total of 274 moons, almost twice as many as all the other planets combined. The International ...

The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total of 274 moons, the most of any planet in the Solar System. The discovery has raised a lot of questions. How do you spot moons, and why hadn’t ...