Editor's note: This article was updated March 25 at 11:40 a.m. ET to account for the recent discovery of new moons around Saturn and Jupiter. The total number of planetary moons and small-body ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saturn's moon Enceladus photograph as taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. (CREDIT: NASA / JPL) Several small worlds beyond Jupiter ...

The two largest planets in our Solar System, Jupiter and Saturn, also have the largest satellite systems, or the most moons. At present, Jupiter’s reported moon count stands at more than 100 moons, ...

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