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

You thought Saturn's 146 moons were impressive? Think again. The ringed planet's moon count has nearly doubled with the ...

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

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 ...

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

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

With a whopping total of 274 moons, researchers say Saturn’s tug of war with Jupiter for the title is settled once and for ...

The team observed Saturn repeatedly between 2019 and 2021 and combined multiple images, reducing noise and strengthening the ...