Astronomers Detect a Dozen New Moons Around Saturn, Creating a Record Gap With Jupiter
The Daily Galaxy • • science
Key Points:
- A total of 15 new tiny moons have been discovered orbiting Jupiter and Saturn, increasing the known moons in the solar system to 442 as detection technology advances.
- These newly found moons are extremely small, about 3 kilometers in diameter, and very faint, requiring powerful ground-based telescopes like the Magellan-Baade and Subaru to detect them.
- Saturn now has 285 moons, significantly surpassing Jupiter's 101, with the gap widening due to recent discoveries, including 128 Saturnian moons found by Edward Ashton’s team in 2025.
- The uneven distribution of moons continues across the solar system, with Uranus and Neptune having 28 and 16 moons respectively, while Earth and Mars have only
