Saturn's moons were thrust into the spotlight during the Voyager 1, Voyager 2, Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 flybys in the 1970s and 1980s, but it wasn't until NASA's Cassini mission reached Saturn in ...

All of Saturn’s moons vie for our attention. But several astronomers are particularly beguiled by Phoebe , a mid-sized moon discovered in 1898 and whose eccentric, backwards orbit has long ...

What’s more, every one of these moons was orbiting Saturn. With the use of the Canada France Hawaii Telescope, the team spent two years between 2019 to 2021 observing the skies around Saturn.

However, scientists believe there are plenty more moons around Saturn waiting to be discovered, with the number likely to be in the thousands. It seems all but certain that Saturn's moon count isn ...

But scientists say this discovery likely settles the score once and for all ... the appearance of the moons and determine what they were. Finding life on Saturn's moon Titan may be more difficult ...

Saturn was already the reigning champion in the moon department. Now, with 274, Saturn has more moons than all the other planets combined.

What are they going to call all these moons? Are there more out there? And what exactly makes something a moon, anyway? These new discoveries cement Saturn’s place as the winner of the Solar ...

The Earth’s moon falls under the category of regular moons, which are natural satellites that follow a mostly stable, circular orbit around a host planet. The newly discovered moons of Saturn, on the ...

The 128 new Saturnian satellites are all considered irregular moons ... this latest moon searching mission. With Saturn’s high number of small moons compared to larger moons, a collision ...

Saturn’s new grand total of 274 moons is almost twice as many as all the rest of the moons in our solar system combined—so, the planet has clearly earned the title of “moon king.” ...

In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The ...

What are they going to call all these moons? Are there more out there? And what exactly makes something a moon, anyway? These new discoveries cement Saturn’s place as the winner of the Solar ...