Canada-Linked Team Finds Saturn Has 128 More Moons, Leaving Jupiter in Cosmic Dust

This Jan. 2, 2010 image made available by NASA shows the planet Saturn, as seen from the Cassini spacecraft. (The Canadian Press/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute via AP）

Canadian and other researchers have confirmed Saturn as the solar system’s undisputed “moon king,” after discovering 128 more moons circling the ringed planet.

The discovery by a team, including current and former University of British Columbia astronomers, brings Saturn’s total to 274, almost twice as many as all other planets in our solar system combined, and leaving Jupiter in a distant second place with 95 moons.