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

The smashups are thought to have occurred at least 100 million years ago, but the moons they created are new to astronomers.

The International Astronomical Union formally recognised all of Saturn’s moons this week. The moons are yet to get names but ...

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

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

With a whopping total of 274 moons, researchers say Saturn’s tug of war with Jupiter for the title is settled once and for ...

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

A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.

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

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

Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to rovers on the Martian surface. The only way to see Deimos’ far side up close is ...

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