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

The Antennae Galaxies are filled with black holes and neutron stars, speeding up the process of star formation and change. Saturn's rings, first observed by Galileo 400 years ago, have since become ...

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 planets in our solar system. They’re also about to perform a vanishing ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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