The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The International Astronomical Union officially recognized 128 new moons orbiting ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

Discovering small Saturnian moons could help in understanding more about Saturn and in future resource-mining. The ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

The moons are only a few kilometers in size. Saturn has more moons than any planet in our solar system. Astronomers have discovered 128 new moons orbiting Saturn, further solidifying the planet as ...

Saturn has "gained" a staggering 128 new moons in a groundbreaking discovery by astronomers in Taiwan. The find, made by a ...

With a whopping total of 274 moons, researchers say Saturn’s tug of war with Jupiter for the title is settled once and for all.

Astronomers say they have discovered more than 100 new moons around Saturn, possibly the result of cosmic smashups that left debris in the planet’s orbit as recently as 100 million years ago.

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

Astronomers have taken unprecedented images of baby planets in a distant star system. The planets are still surrounded by ...

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.