The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The International Astronomical Union officially recognized 128 new moons orbiting ...

Mars and the moon will also be in conjunction tonight. If you're lucky enough to have clear skies tonight, you can catch a ...

that are captured by a planet as it finishes forming. They are then broken into pieces by collisions. Regular moons tend to ...

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 "gained" a staggering 128 new moons in a groundbreaking discovery by astronomers in Taiwan. The find, made by a ...

The moon dims, the meteors fly, and the planets dance—these are the most exciting celestial events happening this month.

The gas giant planets of our solar system have many moons, which are defined as objects ... But as long as they have trackable orbits around their parent body, the scientists who catalog objects ...

All of the 128 new moons are “irregular moons”, objects captured by their host planet early on in the history of the solar system. “These moons are a few kilometers in size and are likely all ...

Qatar Calendar House announced on Thursday that four planets will align with the Moon in the skies over Qatar during ...

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 ...

A team of scientists — including a Canadian from the University of British Columbia — have identified an additional 128 moons orbiting the ringed planet, bringing Saturn's total moon count to ...

They are then broken into pieces by collisions. Regular moons tend to orbit their planets in nice, circular orbits around the equator. Irregular moons typically orbit in big ovals further away ...