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

Saturn and Jupiter, the two gas giants, have long vied for the title of “moon king.” Over the years, astronomers have been ...

The race between Jupiter and Saturn for the most moons in the Solar System may have just finally come screeching to a halt.

Using data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter's highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in ...

The smashups are thought to have occurred at least 100 million years ago, but the moons they created are new to astronomers.

This brings Saturn's grand total to 274 moons. To put it into perspective, that's nearly double all the other planets' moons. Poor Jupiter ... might have reached its peak in detecting moons ...

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

Saturn just solidified its title as ‘moon king’ with an updated tally of 274 satellites orbiting the gas giant. The ...

For centuries, Jupiter reigned as king of the moons. Initially, the Big Four, discovered by Galileo, and then as optics and astronomy advanced, more and more, smaller and smaller bodies, until Big J ...

The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...

so its irregular satellites can be harder to spot. Unlike Saturn, Jupiter lacks a youthful-looking moon cluster, Gladman notes. That suggests Jupiter hasn’t had a recent moon-on-moon collision ...

Using data collected by NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter’s highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in ...