The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

Using data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter's highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in ...

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

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

Scientists believe that the moons are remnants of larger objects shattered by ancient collisions, a glimpse into the chaotic early solar system.

Canadian and other researchers have confirmed Saturn as the solar system’s undisputed “moon king," after discovering 128 more ...

An international team of astronomers working with the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have discovered a whopping 128 more ...

If there was a contest for the most interesting moon in our solar system, Callisto would be a contender. Jupiter's ...

The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...

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

“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 discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision about 100 million years ago.