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

The rings, believed to be made up of rocky and icy chunks that could be as large as a house, help separate Saturn from other ...

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

Observations took place between 2019 and 2021, then again in 2023. Astronomers took pictures of the sky around Saturn for ...

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

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

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

The Minor Planet Center confirmed the discoveries on March 11. The team observed Saturn repeatedly between 2019 and 2021 and ...

An enhanced colour image of Saturn’?’s rings, as seen by the Voyager 2 spacecraft, August 1981. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) “The rings engage in sort of a ...