New Moons For Saturn . ... Four newly discovered satellites bring the ringed planet's total to twenty-two, just edging out Uranus' twenty-one for the most known moons in the solar system. ... Unlike Saturn's larger moons whose almost circular orbits lie near the planet's equatorial plane, all four newly discovered moons have irregular , skewed orbits drifting far from the planet. ... Saturn's only previously known irregular satellite is Phoebe , discovered over 100 years ago by W. H. Pickering, . ...