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

The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision ...

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

Astronomers took pictures of the sky around Saturn for hours at a time ... Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute ...

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

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

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

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

In 2023, astronomers discovered 62 new moons of Saturn, bringing its total to 145 moons and surpassing Jupiter. More recently ...

With the new spottings, Saturn has usurped Jupiter which has 95 known moons, while Uranus (28) and Neptune (16) remain third ...

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

Ashton was only able to take photos of Saturn during the new moon phase, Alexandersen said. During the full moon phase, the sky is too bright to take photos of planets as far out in the solar ...