The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...
An international team of astronomers working with the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have discovered a whopping 128 more ...
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 ...
Scientists have discovered over 100 new moons orbiting Saturn, raising its total to 274. These small rocky moons likely ...
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 ...
Even before the recently announced moons, Saturn had more than anyone could reasonably keep track of. Now, astronomers have ...
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 ...