The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision about 100 million years ago.
The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...
Scientists believe that the moons are remnants of larger objects shattered by ancient collisions, a glimpse into the chaotic early solar system.
This new discovery would bring a total of 274 moons for Saturn. The post Space scientists discover Saturn has 128 new moons ...
All of the newly discovered moons are classified as "irregular moons," which are objects captured by Saturn early in the ...
Saturn has dozens of new moons, bringing it to a total of 274. All of the new moons are between 2 and 4 kilometres wide, but ...
The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...