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

Until recently, Jupiter held the record for the most moons, but with the new discovery, Saturn now has a total of 274 satellites-almost twice as many as all the other planets combined. The team ...

Saturn has taken an impressive lead in the "who has the most moons" race with Jupiter after the discovery of a further 128 natural satellites orbiting the gas giant. From 2019 to 2021, the Canada ...

The latest analysis of data from the Galileo probe reveals surprising clues about Callisto, one of Jupiter's moons. These discoveries could change our understanding of this icy satellite. Callisto, ...

Its impressive moon tally means it has the most moons of any other planet in the solar system. Saturn's satellites differ greatly in their composition, from icy giants with subsurface oceans to ...

Ariane Flight VA233 carrying four European Galileo navigation satellites launches in November 2016 in Kourou, French Guiana. (Stephane Corvaja/ESA via Getty Images) THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The ...

NASA's Galileo mission, which launched into space in 1989, was designed to study Jupiter, its moons, and its surrounding invisible magnetic bubble, called the magnetosphere. The spacecraft had 35 ...

NASA launched the Lunar Trailblazer satellite to map water deposits on the moon, focusing on permanently shadowed craters near the poles. Weighing 440 pounds, it uses advanced instruments to ...

the team decided to test their methods on 30-year-old measurements taken by NASA's Galileo mission. That mission launched in 1989 and scanned Jupiter and its moons between 1995 and 2003. " ...