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

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 ...

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 ...

It noted that knowing the formation time of the 2,500-kilometer-wide SPA basin, which is located on the moon's far side, ...

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.