Uranus, the mysterious ice giant, has 27 known moons, each named after literary characters from Shakespeare and Alexander ...

A ring-crossing is where Saturn’s rings seem ... around a planet at the same time as the planet itself forms. Irregular moons are thought to be small planets (planetesimals) that are captured ...

A ring-crossing is where Saturn's rings seem ... The new moons are all irregular. One of Saturn's irregular moons, Phoebe. Phoebe was discovered in 1898 and was the first irregular moon of Saturn ...

Astronomers are now wondering, though, how this abundance of moons emerged in the first place. Regular vs. Irregular Moons Although Saturn boasts an impressive amount of moons, they aren’t quite like ...

"Our carefully planned multi-year campaign has yielded a bonanza of new moons that tell us about the evolution of Saturn's irregular natural satellite population," study lead author Edward Ashton ...

Saturn surpasses Jupiter with 128 newly discovered moons, becoming the planet with the most moons in our solar system.

A ring-crossing is where Saturn’s rings seem ... around a planet at the same time as the planet itself forms. Irregular moons are thought to be small planets (planetesimals) that are captured ...