Saturn has seized the title of moon king. Astronomers have just discovered as many as 128 new moons orbiting Saturn. This ...

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

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 ...

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

"These electrons gain energy from the interaction between Io and Jupiter's magnetic ... vary across the moon. Juno's extended mission includes explorations of some of its many moons.

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

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

Jupiter's second-largest moon has more impact craters on its surface than any other planetary body in the solar system, and it has tons of ice on its surface as well. For decades. researchers ...

Liftoff! NASA's Europa Clipper Sails Toward Ocean Moon of Jupiter Oct. 14, 2024 — NASA's Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with ...

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

Poor Jupiter, once the reigning moon king ... According to experts, current technology might have reached its peak in detecting moons around Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. But this discovery ...