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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

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

An international team of astronomers working with the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have discovered a whopping 128 more ...

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 ...

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 ...