The Minor Planet Center has confirmed the addition of 28 newly discovered moons of Saturn. Saturn now has 117 moons and Jupiter has 95. Corey Powell notes that if we start counting all the chunks in ...

Saturn was already the reigning champion in the moon department. Now, with 274, Saturn has more moons than all the other planets combined.

Mike Alexandersen, a post-doctoral fellow at the Minor Planet Center (MPC) who was also involved in the discovery of Saturn's latest moons, says the discoveries will guide our understanding of ...

Saturn has 83 known moons, the most of any planet in our Solar System. This size comparison video from MetaBallStudios lines them all up, with London as the background.

Saturn has dozens of new moons, bringing it to a total of 274. All of the new moons are between 2 and 4 kilometres wide, ... Mike Alexandersen at the Minor Planet Center, ...

Two of the prograde moons are actually closer to the planet and can take around 2 years to complete one rotation around Saturn. As far as the others go, they can take over 3 years for just one orbit.

One of Saturn's moons, Titan, orbits its host planet. ... The Minor Planet Center, which catalogs moon designations, has published 42 of the new Saturnian moons over the past week or more.

Saturn has an official count of 274 moon after 128 new moons found in 2023 were recognized. A team of astronomers from Taiwan, Canada, the U.S., and France discovered the 128 new moons in 2023 using ...

NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments called vesicles could form naturally in the lakes of Saturn's moon Titan.

Astronomers recently announced that they had discovered 62 new moons around the ringed planet Saturn and more are being added to the list. So, how have they lain hidden for so long?