Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

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

Astronomers say they have discovered more than 100 new moons around Saturn, possibly the result of cosmic smashups that left ...

Saturn now leads the solar system with 274 known moons. Scientists say many moons formed from past collisions.

In 2023, Jupiter reclaimed the lead with 12 new moons. However, later that year, astronomers spotted an impressive 68 new ...

French satellites, for instance, will tone down their brightness, after France updated its national space law last year in ...

Learn about the 128 newly discovered moons of Saturn, believed to be the remnants of collisions that occurred early in the planet's history.

Paris (AFP) – Sous pression avant le début du Tournoi, le sélectionneur du XV de France Fabien Galthié finit la compétition avec un titre et la satisfaction de voir la stratégie et les ...

NASA/JHU-APL/Southwest Research Institute The new batch of 128 moons was discovered by stacking images from the Canada France Hawaii telescope ... governed by the International Astronomical Union (IAU ...

His team’s findings were recently recognized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the official arbiter of celestial nomenclature. Since 2019, astronomers have been monitoring the sky around ...

The smashups are thought to have occurred at least 100 million years ago, but the moons they created are new to astronomers.

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