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Its impressive moon tally means it has the most moons of any other planet in the solar system. Saturn's satellites differ greatly in their composition, from icy giants with subsurface oceans to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Ashton and his team believe that the irregular moons were captured by Saturn at some point in its history. Some may be fragments of large objects that collided elsewhere in the solar system ...

Our current view of Saturn means we're looking at the gas giant's famous rings edge on, making it impossible for telescopes on Earth to see them. This phenomenon is called a "ring plane crossing ...

With the new spottings, Saturn has usurped Jupiter which has 95 known moons, while Uranus (28) and Neptune (16) remain third and fourth on the list. Even the icy planets in our solar system such ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...