Official Recognition of 128 New Moons of Saturn
Saturn has an official count of 274 moon after 128 new moons found in 2023 were recognized. A team of astronomers from Taiwan, Canada, the U.S., and France discovered the 128 new moons in 2023 using the Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). On March 11, 2025, the International Astronomical Union has officially approved them.
The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...
The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...
In August 2006 the International Astronomical Union General Assembly adopted a resolution to reclassify Pluto as a dwarf planet. The reasoning was that it didn't satisfy one of three newly defined ...
In 2006, the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet because it doesn't meet all the criteria for full planet status. Pluto was discovered 95 years ago on Feb. 18 ...
The International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet because it does not clear its orbit of other debris. Pluto was the little planet that could — until it couldn’t.
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