Earth's own moon, a beautiful but stark, dead world shaped by ancient volcanoes and countless impact craters, is undoubtedly the most familiar, but it's far from being the most interesting.

The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. But how many do we actually know about? And how many more are waiting to be discovered?

We have a whole lot of weird moons in the Solar System. We have hot moons and cold moons. There's a moon with liquid and many moons that are dusty. One planet has a walnut moon, and another has ...

Distant solar system objects can't move as quickly as objects moving with Jupiter.Follow-up observations for the 12 new moons took about a year to confirm, and the team used the Magellan Telescope ...

Distant solar system objects can't move as quickly as objects moving with Jupiter.Follow-up observations for the 12 new moons took about a year to confirm, and the team used the Magellan Telescope ...

Distant solar system objects can't move as quickly as objects moving with Jupiter.Follow-up observations for the 12 new moons took about a year to confirm, and the team used the Magellan Telescope ...

Jupiter already reigns as king of the planets — it's the largest one in our solar system. And now, the gas giant has the most known moons, too.Astronomers have observed 12 additional moons ...

Distant solar system objects can't move as quickly as objects moving with Jupiter.Follow-up observations for the 12 new moons took about a year to confirm, and the team used the Magellan Telescope ...

Jupiter already reigns as king of the planets — it's the largest one in our solar system. And now, the gas giant has the most known moons, too.Astronomers have observed 12 additional moons ...

Jupiter already reigns as king of the planets — it's the largest one in our solar system. And now, the gas giant has the most known moons, too.Astronomers have observed 12 additional moons ...

Astronomers have observed 12 additional moons orbiting this planet, bringing its total number of confirmed moons to 92. Skip to content NOWCAST Live Coverage: Procession honoring fallen deputies ...