A mere decade ago, astronomers knew of just 62 moons around Saturn. Today the ringed planet boasts a staggering 274 official satellites. That’s more than any other world in the solar system—and far ...
Saturn gets close to the moon tonight, and skywatchers in Florida, northwestern South America, the Caribbean and Central America will see the ringed planet briefly disappear behind our lunar companion ...
Saturn has the most moons in the solar system at 274, with 128 recently discovered. Many of Saturn's moons have irregular retrograde orbits. Discovering small Saturnian moons could help in ...
Look to the southeastern horizon in the hours following sunset on Nov. 29 — you'll be able to see the moon shine close to the ...
Enceladus is Saturn's sixth-largest moon, a 500 km-wide icy world famed for its south polar geysers spewing water from a ...
Saturn, too tiny to make out, lies at the center of a swarm of 274 moons shown her at their correct relative distances from the planet. The blue and red arcs represent the moons' orbits. Some revolve ...
While the crater-pitted moon may appear geologically dead, researchers have discovered more could be going on under its icy ...
The rules for naming Saturn's moons mean "Moony McMoonface" is off the table. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science have discovered 20 additional moons orbiting Saturn -- and they are ...
Cassini ended its 13-year mission at Saturn on 15 September 2017 when it plunged into the gas giant’s atmosphere. But the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is still keeping an eye on the ringed planet.
Photo cuts through haze to reveal some of the features on moon's surface. This composite image shows an infrared view of Saturn's moon Titan from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, acquired during the mission ...
Artist’s impression of the migration of Titan and the tilt of Saturn. Credit: Coline SAILLENFEST / IMCCE Two scientists from CNRS and Sorbonne University working at the Institute of Celestial ...