But of the nearly 300 moons found to date, not a single one is a ringed moon. This, actually, is weird. Of the eight planets in the Solar System, half have rings of dust and ice orbiting their ...

The researchers focused on a handful of moons that exist close to or within the planet’s rings. The moons Atlas, Epimetheus, Pandora, Daphnis, and Pan are much smaller than the planet’s larger ...

Saturn has 128 more moons than astronomers previously thought - The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total of 274 moons ...

This is a world of unique complexity, made up of a central body and its satellites, not to mention the famous ring surrounding ... orbit around the planet until at least 2017. The orbiter will perform ...

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 ...

While searching for a hypothetical planet at the far edges of our solar system known as Planet Nine or Planet X, a team of astronomers discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter. That brings the total ...

A few years ago, Google gave people the ability to freely explore objects in space — but that experience was mostly locked up in Google Earth, the company's 3D-mapping software. This week ...

Saturn is almost as large as Jupiter and has 82 moons. It has a system of rings orbiting around it, which are made up of rock and icy debris. A year is the length of time it takes a planet to ...

we see the planet and its rings edge-on, creating the illusion of the rings ‘disappearing’. According to NASA, between 1655 and 1980, 13 moons of Saturn were discovered during ring plane ...

The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total ... The Cassini Mission later discovered seven new Saturnian moons. A ring-crossing is where Saturn’s rings seem to disappear from our point ...