Saturn crowned ‘moon king’ after discovery of 128 more moons with help of Canadian researchers [Video]

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.

“Based on our projections, I don’t think Jupiter will ever catch up,” said lead researcher Edward Ashton, who received his astronomy PhD at the University of B.C. and is now a post-doctoral fellow at Taiwan’s Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

The findings, ratified on Tuesday by the International Astronomical Union, come after a decades-long battle to confirm which of the two biggest planets in the solar system have the most moons.

UBC astronomy professor Brett Gladman, a co-author of a forthcoming paper …