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

Jupiter has 95 known moons and many moonlets ... For this new study, the researchers created a simulation to demonstrate how the four largest moons may have come to exist. The team started ...

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

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

Experts analyzed satellite imagery of planetary surface cracks and compared them with Earth's geologic features, searching ...

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.

But it hasn’t always been this way. Jupiter’s four largest moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were the first ever discovered orbiting another planet. They were spotted by Galileo ...

Sep. 3, 2024 — Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a researcher realized that the Solar System's biggest moon's axis has shifted as a result of the impact ...

More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest ... Icy Moons Explorer) missions, both already launched. China's planned Tianwen-4 ...

If there was a contest for the most interesting moon in our solar system, Callisto would be a contender. Jupiter's second-largest moon has more impact craters on its surface than any other ...