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

The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...

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

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

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

An international team of astronomers working with the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have discovered a whopping 128 more ...

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

This multitude of small, not very round objects are thought to be fragments of larger moons that broke apart in collisions ...

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 ...

Saturn now leads the solar system with 274 known moons. Scientists say many moons formed from past collisions.

Astronomers have recently made a major discovery in our Solar System. They have identified 128 new moons orbiting Saturn, ...