Gas giant Saturn has significantly extended its "who has the most moons in the Solar System" competition, with 11 more moons ...

Astronomers have found four new moons orbiting Jupiter and 11 new moons around Saturn.

Tidal migration – gradual outward movement of a moon due to gravitational interactions with its parent planet Axial precession – the slow wobble of a planet's rotational axis, which can fall in and ...

Saturn now leads the solar system with 285 confirmed moons after new discoveries. Most of these are tiny, irregular ...

A view of Saturn and Titan, the planet's largest moon, from the Cassini spacecraft. - NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is one of the solar system’s oddities. Now, ...

The newly discovered moons are "irregular" satellites, meaning they are small (averaging about 3 km across) and have distant, often eccentric orbits.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The solar system has a new winner in the moon department. Twenty new moons have been found around Saturn, giving the ringed planet a total of 82, scientists said Monday.

Now, a study led by SETI Institute scientist Matija Ćuk proposes an explanation linking the formation of the moons and rings, centering on the possibility that Titan is the product of a moon merger.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of Saturn and Titan, the planet's largest moon, from the Cassini spacecraft. - NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute ...