Saturn leads the pack by a long way, however. At the start of 2025, we knew of 146 moons orbiting Saturn, and an additional ...

If you look up on a clear night, the brightest and largest object in the sky will ... So exactly how many solar system moons have we found? The answer, it turns out, depends on your definition ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

These new discoveries cement Saturn’s place as the winner of the Solar System’s moon competition, with more confirmed moons ...

There may be a clear winner in the race between Jupiter and Saturn for the most moons in the Solar System. Saturn officially has 128 new moons, taking its confirmed total to an astonishing 274 moons.

Based on research on lunar samples retrieved by the Chang'e-6 mission, a team of Chinese scientists confirmed that the oldest ...

In a paper published in National Science Review, a research team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences investigated impact ...

American space company Firefly Aerospace announced it has selected the Honeybee Robotics rover for its 2028 mission to the ...

Chinese scientists, using lunar soil samples brought back by Chang'e-6, have determined that the Moon's oldest and largest impact crater, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin, was formed 4.25 billion ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

“It’s the largest batch of new moons,” said ... the scientists who catalog objects in the solar system consider them to be moons. That is the responsibility of the International Astronomical ...