Saturn sets a new record with a staggering 274 moons, surpassing Jupiter’s total and cementing its position as the planet with the most moons in our solar system. The discovery of 128 new moons, ...

While scientists have spent many years studying Saturn’s stunning rings, their attention recently turned to something else surrounding the sixth planet from the sun. Data from one of NASA’s ...

The discovery wave that pushed Saturn to 274 moons The new count rests on a single, dramatic result: Astronomers identified 128 previously unknown satellites orbiting Saturn, a haul large enough to ...

Saturn's giant moon Titan may not have a vast underground ocean after all. Titan may instead hold deep layers of ice and slush more akin to Earth’s polar seas, with pockets of melted water where life ...

(CNN) — In 1610, after he built his telescope, Galileo Galilei first spotted enormous Saturn’s gigantic rings. More than 400 years later, astronomers have in a sense dwarfed that discovery with a ...

Researchers have long been interested in Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, and its icy environment, which harbours lakes, seas, sand dunes and a thick atmosphere full of nitrogen, methane, and complex ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 23, 1672, Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered Rhea, Saturn’s second-largest moon. Rhea is made up of rock and ...