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The race between Jupiter and Saturn for the most moons in the Solar System may have just finally come screeching to a halt.

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

Unlike Saturn, Jupiter lacks a youthful-looking moon cluster, Gladman notes. That suggests Jupiter hasn’t had a recent moon-on-moon collision, one that could have made a bevy of new, tiny ...

Doesn’t Jupiter have the most moons? What are they going to call all these moons? Are there more out there? And what exactly makes something a moon, anyway? These new discoveries cement Saturn ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

towering over the previous record-holder Jupiter, which has 95 moons. The recent discovery points to what astronomers have speculated for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive ...

Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the ...

Saturn just solidified its title as ‘moon king’ with an updated tally of 274 satellites orbiting the gas giant. The record-breaking statistic puts Saturn way ahead of its moon-bearing competitors, as ...

Worldwide, the best day to see the alignment is today, Feb. 28. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus could all be visible with clear skies, but not all can be seen by the ...

"The fact that the small moons are still there in enormous abundance tells us the collision couldn't have happened billions .