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

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...