Saturn has 128 more moons than astronomers previously thought - The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total of 274 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Of course, our moon isn’t the only celestial body orbiting larger planets. See if you can match the moon to the planet it ...

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 ...

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 ...

Another difference is that while regular moons emerged as their host planet was forming, many irregular moons are believed to have been planetesimals (small, early-stage planets) captured by their ...

The Minor Planet Center confirmed the discoveries ... The difference is because of their origins. While Earth's moon formed around Earth, likely due to a giant impact billions of years ago ...

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 ...

The planet’s main competition in the solar system, Jupiter, has just 95 confirmed moons. The two gas giants have been locked in a battle over who has the most moons in their orbit for years ...

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 ...