Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Europa is the sixth largest satellite in our Solar System and the smallest of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons. Discovered by ...

Astronomers have discovered 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the planet with the most moons with 274.The International ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

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

"Sure enough, we found 128 new moons." Jupiter and Saturn have taken turns ... "We hypothesize that the steep Saturnian size distribution, from D = 4 km down to 3 km, is a signature of a ...