Astronomers stunned to find Saturn has 128 more moons in rare discovery
Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...
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A huge asteroid crash permanently altered Jupiter's biggest moon Ganymede
A colossal asteroid slammed into Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede with so much power it ... that wiped out the dinosaurs from ...
Top 7 largest moons in solar system captured by NASA
Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon and the solar system's largest, is bigger than Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto, with a diameter of 5,268 kilometers.
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Astronomers find Saturn has 128 more moons in rare discovery
Jupiter’s four largest moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were the first ever discovered orbiting another planet. They were spotted by Galileo Galilei more than 400 years ago ...
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Why It's Impossible For A Moon To Be Bigger Than Its Planet
The largest moon in the solar system is Ganymede, one of the moons of Jupiter. Ganymede is larger than the planet Mercury, and it is the only moon known to have its own magnetic field. The ...
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Explainer: 128 new moons for Saturn, but what even counts as a moon?
Saturn surpasses Jupiter with 128 newly discovered moons, becoming the planet with the most moons in our solar system.
7 lesser-known facts about our solar system
The first time you may have heard the term ‘dwarf planet’ was when Pluto got demoted to one in 2006 (RIP). However, we actually have six in our Solar System. Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris ...