You thought Saturn's 146 moons were impressive? Think again. The ringed planet's moon count has nearly doubled with the ...

A theory involving a "mushy zone" of ice along the moon’s fissures could explain the enormous plumes erupting from its south ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

Saturn’s moons have been the subject of a lot of astronomical attention over the years. They range in size from the ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

Saturn runs rings around Jupiter Ratification of 128 new moons put the smaller gas giant way ahead on satellite count The ...

A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.

The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision about 100 million years ago.

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter ... By comparison, Mercury, and Venus are moonless, Earth has one moon, and Mars has two. Uranus and Neptune have 28 and 16 known ...

Beneath the ice is a giant ocean where astronomers think life ... from such small and distant objects. The giant moon Titan in front of Saturn's edge-on rings, seen by the Cassini spacecraft ...

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has long been ... suggesting that the observed plumes might not come from a hidden ocean under the moon's surface at all. Instead, the team suggests the water in ...