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

Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon and the solar system's largest, is bigger than Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto, with a diameter of 5,268 kilometers.

Discovering small Saturnian moons could help in understanding more about Saturn and in future resource-mining. The ...

The solar system is home to bizarre moons like Enceladus and Callisto, each unveiling nature’s wonders and some of science’s ...

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

Two valleys extending away from a giant crater suggest that upcoming Artemis missions are more likely to sample ancient lunar ...

Saturn now leads the solar system with 274 known moons. Scientists say many moons formed from past collisions.

Ganymede is the largest of all solar system moons, exceeding Mercury and Pluto in size. Neptune’s moons are named after Greek sea gods and nymphs. Triton, the largest of these moons, has a ...

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

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.

Jupiter’s four largest moons – Io ... by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Originally, all moons in the Solar System were given names from Greco-Roman mythology.