Twelve newly confirmed moons bring Jupiter's total to 92, surpassing Saturn's 83 moons.
Jupiter was already the king of the solar system, and new discoveries give the massive planet another way to reign supreme: It now has the most moons.
The newly discovered moons are small, ranging from 0.6 to 2 miles wide, and most of them have wide orbits. Nine of the 12 moons take more than 550 days to orbit the gas giant, Sky and Telescope reported . These far-out moons also orbit Jupiter in a retrograde motion, meaning they move in the opposite direction of Jupiter's rotation.
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