Discovering small Saturnian moons could help in understanding more about Saturn and in future resource-mining. The ...

Saturn has surpassed Jupiter, which has 95 known moons, with the new sightings. Uranus (28), and Neptune (16) are still ...

In particular, this hypothesis could explain the major mystery of why many of Saturn’s moons seem to orbit in an irregular retrograde manner, moving the opposite direction of Saturn’s rotation. The ...

In a celestial discovery that has space enthusiasts and astronomers across the globe looking skyward in awe, Saturn has ...

The newly discovered moons of Saturn are classified as "irregular moons," referring to objects orbiting giant planets on inclined, highly elliptical and retrograde orbits. "All of these moons we ...

Quantitatively upstaging Earth’s guest appearance of a second moon this fall, a recent study found that Saturn has 128 new ...

Quantitatively upstaging Earth’s guest appearance of a second moon this fall, a recent study found that Saturn has 128 new moons in its orbit. Astronomers confirmed this discovery on March 11 ...

During the next ring plane crossing, astronomers will be able to better a good look at Saturn's many moons. As far as planets go, they don't get much more iconic than Saturn: a huge golden ball ...