Astronomers stunned to find Saturn has 128 more moons in rare discovery
Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...
Saturn now has 274 moons – but exactly what makes something a moon remains unclear
The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...
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Is Europa alive? A laser could detect biosignatures from space
Europa is the sixth largest satellite in our Solar System and the smallest of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons. Discovered by ...
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Saturn Has 274 Moons Now; Jupiter Is Crying Itself To Sleep; It Literally Cannot Believe It
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 ...
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Jupiter's Moon Callisto Probably Has an Ocean Under Its Surface
the team decided to test their methods on 30-year-old measurements taken by NASA's Galileo mission. That mission launched in 1989 and scanned Jupiter and its moons between 1995 and 2003.
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Is Callisto, Jupiter’s moon with the most craters and third largest in the Solar System, an oceanic world with life?
Discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610 ... The European Space Agency’s JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) mission is also set to take a good look at what’s going on out there.
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Explainer: 128 new moons for Saturn, but what even counts as a moon?
Saturn surpasses Jupiter with 128 newly discovered moons, becoming the planet with the most moons in our solar system.