Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised discoveries from a team of astronomers led by Edward Ashton at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total of 274 moons, the most of any planet in the Solar System.

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Saturn’s moons have been the subject of a lot of astronomical attention over the years. They range in size from the planet-sized Titan, which is larger than Mercury, to tiny pot

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

Astronomer Sam Lawler from Regina was looking for new Kuiper belt objects when she accidentally stumbled upon Saturn and some of its moons in her way.

This multitude of small, not very round objects are thought to be fragments of larger moons that broke apart in collisions earlier in our solar system's history. There is no lower limit of size in the astronomical definition of a moon,