The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the ...

The smashups are thought to have occurred at least 100 million years ago, but the moons they created are new to astronomers.

Saturn has decisively claimed the crown. With the discovery of 128 new moons, the ringed planet’s total count has soared to 274 — nearly twice as many as all other planets combined. Jupiter now trails ...

Saturn just solidified its title as ‘moon king’ with an updated tally of 274 satellites orbiting the gas giant. The ...

A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.

March's full moon, known as the Worm Moon, will bring a stunning total lunar eclipse, turning the Moon a deep reddish hue in ...

Saturn was already the reigning champion in the moon department. Now, with 274, Saturn has more moons than all the other planets combined.

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

Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in 2012, followed by Voyager 2 in 2018, making them the only spacecraft to operate ...

“These moons are a few kilometers in size and are likely all fragments of a smaller number of originally captured moons that were broken apart by violent collisions, either with other Saturnian moons ...

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