The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

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, but at what point is a rock too small to be a moon?

Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the ...

The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...

Astronomers have discovered 128 never-before-seen moons orbiting Saturn — giving it almost twice as many moons as all the other planets in the solar system combined. The findings have further ...

The gas giant planets of our solar system have many moons, which are defined as objects ... or subscribe for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access.

But scientists say this discovery likely settles the score once and for all. "We don't think ... shape when we hear the word moon, anything that orbits a planet, or another body in space that ...

Saturn has left its former rival in the dust with a new total of 274 moons, almost twice as many as all the other planets ...

A very rare treat is about to grace Earth's night skies.