Saturn has surpassed Jupiter, which has 95 known moons, with the new sightings. Uranus (28), and Neptune (16) are still ...

Quantitatively upstaging Earth’s guest appearance of a second moon this fall, a recent study found that Saturn has 128 new ...

Earth crosses through Saturn’s “ring plane,” making the gas giant’s most iconic feature become nearly invisible ...

What are they going to call all these moons? Are there more out there? And what exactly makes something a moon, anyway? These ...

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

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

By Sage Rohrbach A photo of five of Saturn’s moons, captured by the Cassani spacecraft. The moons visible are Janus, Pandora, Enceladus, Rhea, and Mimas. Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science ...

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

Turns out, there’s a lot more floating around the planet Saturn than those famous rings. Space scientists announced last week ...

What are they going to call all these moons? Are there more out there? And what exactly makes something a moon, anyway? These new discoveries cement Saturn’s place as the winner of the Solar ...