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Brett Gladman

Brett Gladman

Professor of Astronomy, University of British Columbia; Canada Research Chair in Planetary Astronomy

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As one pushes to the limit of modern telescopes, we are finding increasing evidence that a moderate-sized moon orbiting backwards around Saturn was blown apart something like 100 million years ago.

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Saturn's moon empire: 128 new worlds in a single day

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Co-discoverer, has found more moons than anyone in human history

On March 11, 2025, the International Astronomical Union dropped a bombshell: 128 new moons orbiting Saturn. Not over a year. Not over a decade. All at once. A team led by Edward Ashton stacked thousands of telescope images from 2019 to 2023, revealing a swarm of tiny irregular satellites—each just a few kilometers across—that had been hiding in plain sight. Saturn now has 274 confirmed moons, more than all other planets in the solar system combined.

Updated Jan 7