Counting Saturn's new moons, there are 289 moons among the eight planets in the solar system and Pluto, which has five. Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet from a full-size one by the ...

Saturn has more moons than any planet in our solar system. Astronomers have discovered 128 new moons orbiting Saturn, further solidifying the planet as the "moon king" of our solar system.

An artist’s conception of the 20 newly discovered moons orbiting Saturn. These discoveries bring the planet’s total moon count to 82, surpassing Jupiter for the most in our solar system.

Saturn’s first known moon, Titan, was discovered by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens 45 years later. The new batch of 128 moons was discovered by stacking images from the Canada France Hawaii ...

In October 2016, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured of its last looks at Saturn and its main rings. Nearly three years later, astronomers have announced the discovery of 20 small moons orbiting ...

Saturn may top the moon leaderboard today, but its title likely depends on additional moons around outlying planets being too hard to see, according to Jewitt. Accounting for the distance handicap ...

Astronomers from the University of Virginia and other institutions have found that Enceladus, the sixth-largest moon of Saturn, is a “cosmic graffiti artist,” pelting the surfaces of at… ...

With its striking rings and tilted axis, Saturn is the showiest planet in the solar system. Now, scientists say they have a new theory as to how Saturn got its signature look.

The discovery of 62 'irregular' moons orbiting Saturn brings the planet’s total to 145 — and hints at a chaotic past. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The Walnut Moon. Saturn's 900-mile wide moon Iapetus has a dark side and a light side. Iapetus rotates so slowly – once every 79 days – that it has a huge temperature difference between the ...

Saturn has 83 moons now—but the now-missing Chrysalis may have had a huge impact on what we see today. NASA, ESA, A. Simon (GSFC), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL Team ...

This Moon Of Saturn May Be Tiny, But It Sure Looks Like A Mouthful : The Two-Way You may be inclined to see a ravioli, a walnut or an empanada, but it's tough to deny that Pan's distinctive ridge ...