Image by Edu INAF, photographer: Alessandro Bianconi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons ... lying beyond Neptune’s orbit. This region is home to a myriad of dwarf planets, comets, and asteroids, ...
This is the fourth comet Gröller has discovered, but given its extraordinary distance, it was the most exciting find, he says ...
The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...
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Wispy comet photobombs 'rare' planetary parade above Chile's Atacama Desert (photos)In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...
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128 new moons discovered orbiting Saturn, nearly doubling the ringed planet's totalFaint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the ...
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Astronomers Discover 128 New Moons Orbiting Saturn, Cementing the Planet’s Title of ‘Moon King’The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...
The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...
Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons , as the International Astronomical Union recognised discoveries from a team of ...
Saturn just solidified its title as ‘moon king’ with an updated tally of 274 satellites orbiting the gas giant. The ...
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A Series of Cosmic Collisions Gave Saturn 128 'New' MoonsThe smashups are thought to have occurred at least 100 million years ago, but the moons they created are new to astronomers.
Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...
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