Astronomers stunned to find Saturn has 128 more moons in rare discovery - The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total ...

Saturn now leads the solar system with 274 known moons. Scientists say many moons formed from past collisions.

Quantitatively upstaging Earth’s guest appearance of a second moon this fall, a recent study found that Saturn has 128 new ...

By Sage Rohrbach A photo of five of Saturn’s moons, captured by the Cassani spacecraft. The moons visible are Janus, Pandora, Enceladus, Rhea, and Mimas. Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science ...

Astronomers have just discovered 128 new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing its total to a staggering 274. This discovery not only solidifies Saturn's title as the "moon king" but also offers a ...

The newly discovered moons of Saturn, on the other hand, have all been categorized as irregular (overall, 24 of Saturn’s moons are regular, while the other 250 are considered irregular). Irregular ...

Turns out, there’s a lot more floating around the planet Saturn than those famous rings. Space scientists announced last week ...

Planets don't get much more iconic than Saturn. But if you managed to see it through a backyard telescope right now, you wouldn't see its rings.

These new discoveries cement Saturn's place as the winner of the Solar System's moon competition, with more confirmed moons than all of the other planets combined. But it hasn't always been this way.

Saturn, too tiny to make out, lies at the center of a swarm of 274 moons shown her at their correct relative distances from the planet. The blue and red arcs represent the moons' orbits.

What are they going to call all these moons? Are there more out there? And what exactly makes something a moon, anyway? These new discoveries cement Saturn’s place as the winner of the Solar ...