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.

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far beyond any other planet in our solar system.

Saturn Gains 128 New Moons, Bringing Its Total to 274. The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s history.

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 ...

All of Saturn’s new moons are approximately three miles in diameter, and 17 of them orbit the planet in a backward, or retrograde, orbit. You can see the orbit of these moons in red in the image ...

In May this year, astronomers announced that they had found 62 new moons orbiting one of the Solar System's gas giants, the ringed planet Saturn. At a stroke, it raised the number of confirmed ...

A large chunk of Saturn's new irregular moons - 64 of them - were described in a recent paper submitted to the Planetary Science Journal, currently available on the arXiv preprint server.

Move over, Jupiter. There's a new moon champ in our solar system — Saturn. Researchers have discovered an additional 20 moons orbiting the ringed planet, giving it a total of 82 satellites ...

A team of scientists led by Carnegie Institution for Science astronomer Scott S. Sheppard has found 20 new moons in orbit around Saturn, bringing the planet's total up to 82.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The solar system has a new winner in the moon department. Twenty new moons have been found around Saturn, giving the ringed planet a total of 82, scientists said Monday ...