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

Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the ...

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

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

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

You thought Saturn's 146 moons were impressive? Think again. The ringed planet's moon count has nearly doubled with the ...

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

Images from the Hera mission show the object in remarkable detail — a small island gliding above the crater-scarred Martian ...

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

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

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

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