Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised discoveries from a team of astronomers led by Edward Ashton at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total of 274 moons, the most of any planet in the Solar System.

Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the indisputable frontrunner for having the most moons in our solar system.

Astronomer Sam Lawler from Regina was looking for new Kuiper belt objects when she accidentally stumbled upon Saturn and some of its moons in her way.

This multitude of small, not very round objects are thought to be fragments of larger moons that broke apart in collisions earlier in our solar system's history. There is no lower limit of size in the astronomical definition of a moon,