A team led by Carnegie’s Scott S. Sheppard has found 20 new moons orbiting Saturn. This brings the ringed planet’s total number of moons to 82, surpassing Jupiter, which has 79. The discovery was ...

Cassini launched Oct. 15, 1997 on a long-term mission to Saturn and its moons. After a trio of gravity assists, two from ...

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. That beats Jupiter and its 79 ...

The Saturn system has always been a contender in the contest for most moons in the solar system. For a while, it was duking ...

Astronomers announced the discovery of 128 new moons orbiting Saturn on Tuesday. The moons are only a few kilometers in size. Saturn has more moons than any planet in our solar system. Astronomers ...

Researchers found new classes of organic molecules not spotted before that could be involved under the right circumstances in ...

A further 128 moons have been discovered orbiting Saturn, bringing the planet's total to 274 – more than there are around all the other planets in our solar system combined. But as advances in ...

We're about to see three supermoons in a row, as the moon gets exceptionally close to Earth, making it appear bigger and ...

Enceladus has the magic trio: liquid water, an energy source and a specific set of chemical reactions required to bring about ...

A mere decade ago, astronomers knew of just 62 moons around Saturn. Today the ringed planet boasts a staggering 274 official satellites. That’s more than any other world in the solar system—and far ...

Simulations indicate that Saturn’s moon Enceladus ejects less ice into space than previously estimated. In the 1600s, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini aimed their telescopes at ...

Titan’s atmosphere tilts and shifts seasonally. The discovery shapes future exploration. Researchers at the University of ...