Saturn just recently became the planet with the most moons in our Solar System. At most recent count, it has 117 confirmed moons, leapfrogging Jupiter’s recent record high of 95 moons.

Counting Saturn's new moons, there are 289 moons among the eight planets in the solar system and Pluto, which has five. Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet from a full-size one by the ...

Saturn's seven icy rings each spin at their own speed, behaving like a "mini solar system." Planetary scientist James O'Donoghue made a beautifully simple animation to show how it works.

Astronomers believe they have discovered a fast-moving comet that Saturn sent careening out of our solar system at a speed far eclipsing humanity's fastest fighter jets. Though the planetary ...

Those original moons may have been captured by Saturn “very early on in the solar system,” Dr. Ashton said, perhaps in the first few hundred million years after its formation 4.5 billion years ...