Unlike Earth’s Moon, which is 3,475 km wide, these newly discovered moons are only a few kilometres across and follow irregular orbits. Many of these small moons move in chaotic paths ...

With the new spottings, Saturn has usurped Jupiter which has 95 known moons, while Uranus (28) and Neptune (16) remain third ...

So exactly how many solar system moons have we ... uncertainty about how many small-body satellites are really out there. —Why can we sometimes see the moon in broad daylight?

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

If you find Jupiter, you’ll likely see four small dots to the side of the gas giant: they are the Galilean moons, four of the 95 natural satellites around the Solar System’s largest planet.

Deimos, the moon of Mars, appears in silhouette against the ... with the hope of gathering more information about these small celestial bodies that populate our Solar System. A gravitational assist is ...

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

The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision ...

The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...

Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...