{"id":208412,"date":"2025-03-12T07:17:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T12:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/128-new-moons-found-orbiting-saturn-in-mindblowing-discovery"},"modified":"2025-03-12T07:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T12:17:24","slug":"128-new-moons-found-orbiting-saturn-in-mindblowing-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/128-new-moons-found-orbiting-saturn-in-mindblowing-discovery","title":{"rendered":"128 New Moons Found Orbiting Saturn in Mindblowing Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pqnHn_LS9zs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The race between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-weirdest-facts-about-jupiter\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Jupiter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/what-is-saturn\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Saturn<\/a> for the most moons in the Solar System may have just finally come screeching to a halt.<\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists has found a whopping 128 previously unknown moons hanging around Saturn, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/minorplanetcenter.net\/mpec\/K25\/K25EF3.html\">discovery<\/a> officially <a href=\"https:\/\/minorplanetcenter.net\/mpec\/K25\/K25EF4.html\">recognized<\/a> by the <a href=\"https:\/\/minorplanetcenter.net\/mpec\/K25\/K25EF5.html\">International Astronomical Union<\/a>. This brings the planet\u2019s total number of known moons to 274, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/jupiter-overtakes-saturn-as-the-planet-with-the-most-known-moons\">leaving Jupiter<\/a>, with its mere <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/jupiter\/jupiter-moons\/\">95 moons<\/a>, in the dust.<\/p>\n<p>The first hint that there were more moons awaiting discovery came between 2019 and 2021, when <a href=\"https:\/\/science.ubc.ca\/news\/saturn-now-leads-moon-race-62-newly-discovered-satellites\">62 such objects<\/a> were identified. Other small objects were also spotted at the time that couldn\u2019t yet be designated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The race between Jupiter and Saturn for the most moons in the Solar System may have just finally come screeching to a halt. A team of scientists has found a whopping 128 previously unknown moons hanging around Saturn, in a discovery officially recognized by the International Astronomical Union. This brings the planet\u2019s total number of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}