The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...
Plus: Observe two stunning spirals, see Venus reappear as a morning star, and enjoy the Last Quarter Moon in the sky this ...
Saturn and Jupiter, the two gas giants, have long vied for the title of “moon king.” Over the years, astronomers have been ...
Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...
With the new spottings, Saturn has usurped Jupiter which has 95 known moons, while Uranus (28) and Neptune (16) remain third ...
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 discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision ...
Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...
“These moons are a few kilometers in size and are likely all fragments of a smaller number of originally captured moons that ...
A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.
Using data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter's highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in ...
Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the ...