Saturn has 274 confirmed moons, Five of Saturn's moons captured in a single frame with Cassini's narrow-angle camera on Jul. 29, 2011. In this image Janus is on the far left, Pandora is just ...

Saturn's moon count nearly doubled with the official recognition of 128 new moons, bringing the total to an astonishing 274 moons. The new moons were discovered by a team of astronomers using the ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far beyond any other planet in our solar system.

Saturn leads the pack by a long way, however. At the start of 2025, we knew of 146 moons orbiting Saturn, and an additional 128 moons have now been officially confirmed.

Saturn has more moons than any planet in our solar system. Astronomers have discovered 128 new moons orbiting Saturn, further solidifying the planet as the "moon king" of our solar system.

Enceladus is one of Saturn's larger moons and is thought to have an ocean beneath its icy crust (Credit: Getty Images) Astronomers recently announced that they had discovered 62 new moons around ...

Saturn may top the moon leaderboard today, but its title likely depends on additional moons around outlying planets being too hard to see, according to Jewitt. Accounting for the distance handicap ...

Saturn is a gas giant, of course. The gases at its surface and more exotic types of matter in its interior collectively act as a fluid. Because there are all these moons orbiting around Saturn ...

Saturn now has 82 moons while Jupiter has 79. Each of the newly discovered moons is about three miles in diameter. Seventeen of them orbit the planet backwards.

If all the objects are recognized by scientific authorities, the ringed giant world will have 145 moons in its orbit. Saturn and several of its moons, including Tethys, Dione and Rhea while Mimas ...

The distant planet Neptune stands still against the background stars of Pisces in the early-morning sky, still visible close ...

In October 2016, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured of its last looks at Saturn and its main rings. Nearly three years later, astronomers have announced the discovery of 20 small moons orbiting ...