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

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...

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

Astronomers have discovered 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the planet with the most moons with 274.The International ...

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary status.

For a while, it was duking it out with Jupiter for the title, but after a recent trio of announcements from the International Astronomical Union (IAU), Saturn has taken a commanding lead. Saturn’s ...

Saturn just solidified its title as ‘moon king’ with an updated tally of 274 satellites orbiting the gas giant. The record-breaking statistic puts Saturn way ahead of its moon-bearing competitors, as ...

This multitude of small, not very round objects are thought to be fragments of larger moons that broke apart in collisions ...

Saturn has become the planet with the most moons following the discovery of 128 new moons by a team of astronomers. This brings the total count to 274, surpassing all other planets. These tiny, ...

Names of astronomical objects are governed by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Originally, all moons in the Solar System were given names from Greco-Roman mythology. But the large ...