While searching for a hypothetical planet at the far edges of our solar system known as Planet Nine or Planet X, a team of astronomers discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter. That brings the total ...

Jupiter has once again surpassed Saturn as the planet in our Solar System with the most moons. Saturn, Jupiter’s outer neighbour, currently has 83 known satellites. The four larger moons mentioned ...

The International Astronomical Union on Tuesday ratified the recent discovery of 128 previously unknown moons orbiting Saturn ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons as well. While some TNOs could be called dwarf planets because of their ...

These pinpricks of light are actually Jupiter's four largest moons, now known as the Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Many of these celestial orbs are as remarkable as Jupiter ...

Astronomers have recently made a major discovery in our Solar System. They have identified 128 new moons orbiting Saturn, nearly doubling the total number of known natural satellites of ...

With the new spottings, Saturn has usurped Jupiter which has 95 known moons, while Uranus (28) and Neptune (16) remain third and fourth on the list. "Sure enough, we found 128 new moons.