You thought Saturn's 146 moons were impressive? Think again. The ringed planet's moon count has nearly doubled with the ...
The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...
Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...
A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.
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.
An international team of astronomers working with the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have discovered a whopping 128 more ...
The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...
The simple answer is that Saturn’s rings do cast shadows on the planet’s surface! NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017, took the dramatic image of the rings ...
NASA's Cassini spacecraft orbited Saturn for more than 10 years ... A natural color view, created using images taken with red, green and blue spectral filters, is also provided (Figure B, right).
Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the ...
Imagery of Saturn captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is superimposed over an image captured by Hubble. "Yellows represent bright and warm parts of Saturn’s atmosphere, while the purple areas ...
Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the ...