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 ...

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

“These moons are a few kilometers in size and are likely all fragments of a smaller number of originally captured moons that ...

Scientists believe that the moons are remnants of larger objects shattered by ancient collisions, a glimpse into the chaotic early solar system.

If you find Jupiter, you’ll likely see four small dots to the side of the gas giant: they are the Galilean moons, four of the 95 natural satellites around the Solar System’s largest planet.

Article continues below The Moon then made a close encounter with Jupiter last night (March 5), sitting close together in the evening sky, just to the right of the constellation Orion, famous for ...

brings Saturn’s total to 274, almost twice as many as all other planets in our solar system combined, and leaving Jupiter in a distant second place with 95 moons.

The team had previously used the telescope to discover 62 more Saturnian moons, a discovery ratified in 2023 that vaulted the planet past Jupiter's moon tally. Ashton said that given the ...

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 discovery has raised a lot of questions. How do you spot moons, and why hadn’t anybody seen these ones already? Doesn’t Jupiter have the most moons? What are they going to call all these ...