Saturn has just pulled far ahead in the solar system’s moon race, with a fresh wave of detections pushing its tally to 274 ...

The moons were discovered by a group of astronomers from Taiwan, Canada, the United States, and France. Between 2019 and 2021, they used the Canada France Hawaii Telescope to repeatedly monitor the ...

A planet believed to have reached its lunar ceiling has just broken the record. A new study has discovered 128 new irregular ...

How far it is from the sun: 886 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers), on average How big it is: 72,400 miles (116,500 km) across, or almost 10 times the size of Earth. How many moons it has: At ...

Saturn, too tiny to make out, lies at the center of a swarm of 274 moons shown her at their correct relative distances from the planet. The blue and red arcs represent the moons' orbits. Some revolve ...

Astronomers announced the discovery of 128 new moons orbiting Saturn on Tuesday. The moons are only a few kilometers in size. Saturn has more moons than any planet in our solar system. Astronomers ...

On Christmas night, Jupiter will be one of the brightest objects in the sky — and a  stand-in for the mythical “Christmas ...

Saturn, a bright 1st-magnitude object, is prominently visible in the southwestern Pisces constellation during the early morning hours. Neptune, at magnitude 7.7, lies approximately 1° north of Saturn ...

An international team of astronomers working with the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have discovered a whopping 128 more moons orbiting Saturn. The Minor Planet Center confirmed the discoveries on ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Saturn’s giant moon Titan may not have a vast underground ocean after all. Titan instead may hold ...

Swirling around the planet’s equator, the rings of Saturn are a dead giveaway that the planet is spinning at a tilt. The belted giant rotates at a 26.7-degree angle relative to the plane in which it ...