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Saturn has 128 more moons than astronomers previously thought - The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total of 274 moons. ... We crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid’s moon in 2022.

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ESA/ATG medialab; background: ESO/S. Brunier There are plenty of moons orbiting around the planets in our solar system — Saturn, for example, has well over 100 known moons — and astronomers ...

The closest the Earth ever comes to Saturn is about 746-million miles, so it’s giant leap to even pick out a few of its moons from this distance, let alone tracking 274 separate moons in orbit.

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An undated artistic rendering shows an asteroid or comet striking near the moon's south pole about 3.8 billion years ago, an impact that carved out two large craters. ... Saturn, Uranus and ...

A team of scientists — including a Canadian from the University of British Columbia — have identified an additional 128 moons orbiting the ringed planet, bringing Saturn's total moon count to 274.