Editor's note: This article was updated March 25 at 11:40 a.m. ET to account for the recent discovery of new moons around Saturn and Jupiter. The total number of planetary moons and small-body ...

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Quick, when you look at the night sky, how many moons do you see? It’s hard to believe, but some reports circulating on social media say there are two moons and there will be for several decades. One ...

In a celestial plot twist that no one expected, the Earth has recently acquired a brand new moon for the grand total of two. The new “moon” is actually a fairly small asteroid, unimaginatively named ...

Saturn has just pulled far ahead in the solar system’s moon race, with a fresh wave of detections pushing its tally to 274 confirmed satellites. The surge, driven by deep imaging and clever data ...