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

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

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

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

Saturn's moons were thrust into the spotlight during ... This paradoxical observation of Mimas' geological history has given rise to the "Mimas Test", which states "any theory that claims to ...

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

Scientists have discovered over 100 new moons orbiting Saturn, raising its total to 274. These small rocky moons likely ...

All of the newly discovered moons are classified as "irregular moons," which are objects captured by Saturn early in the ...

Saturn has 128 newly-discovered moons. Here they are color-coded by ... in the planet’s gravity during our solar system’s early history, then collided either with other moons or with comets ...