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A world of rings and wandering moons
Saturn
A giant of pale gold, carried by a magnificent system of rings and a growing family of small, distant worlds.
Planet typeGas giant
Mean radius58,232 km
Distance from Sun1.43 billion km
Day length10 h 33 min
Confirmed moons293 · Aug 2026
Saturn’s moons
24 featured · 293 confirmed| Moon | Diameter | Distance | Orbit |
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No moons match that search.
Distances are mean orbital semimajor axes from Saturn’s center; periods are sidereal. Many small provisional moons have no measured diameter. JPL orbital data ↗ · NASA moon catalog ↗
Portrait: NASA Cassini “Saturn in Color”
Recent publications
| Year | Paper | Journal | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | The Ringed World: Saturn from Cassini to the James Webb Space Telescope | Nature Communications | DOI |
| 2026 | Investigating tidal stripping of a pre-existing moon as the origin of Saturn’s young icy rings | ApJ Letters | DOI |
| 2023 | Saturn’s Atmosphere in Northern Summer Revealed by JWST/MIRI | JGR Planets | DOI |
| 2023 | JWST molecular mapping and characterization of Enceladus’ water plume feeding its torus | Nature Astronomy | DOI |
| 2024 | Variations in plume activity reveal the dynamics of water-filled faults on Enceladus | Nature Communications | DOI |
Compiled 20 October 2026. Links resolve to the publisher DOI record.