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

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Saturn has reclaimed its title as the planet with the most moons! Astronomers have discovered 128 new moons, bringing its total to 274. A team led by Edward Ashton in Taiwan made the discovery ...

but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s history. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Jonathan O’Callaghan reported on an earlier discovery of 62 moons around Saturn in ...

So exactly how many solar system moons have we found ... the tiny fragments of rock that make up the rings of planets like Saturn and Uranus — individually orbit their host planet but are ...

Saturn just solidified its title as ‘moon king’ with an updated tally of 274 satellites orbiting the gas giant. The record-breaking statistic puts Saturn way ahead of its moon-bearing competitors, as ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

The discovery is keeping astronomers on their toes about how planets are formed.

This finding provides compelling evidence that the giant planets in HR 8799 formed through core accretion, a process similar ...