On October 25, 1671, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered a new moon at Saturn! ‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...

Scientists have discovered that the icy shell of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, could possess an insulated, six-mile-thick (9.7-kilometer-thick) layer of methane ice beneath its surface.

Saturn has tidally locked Iapetus. The moon is named Iapetus after the Greek god Iapetus, who is a son of Uranus and Gaia, a brother to Kronus, and the father of Atlas and Prometheus.

Stuck inside Pan, those warm elements may have led to a gooey center, which - if it spun quickly when it was young - may have flattened out the satellite, much like Saturn's moon Iapetus.

Saturn gets close to the moon tonight, and some skywatchers in Florida, Central America and South America will see the ringed planet briefly disappear behind our lunar companion.

Planetary scientists don’t care about Mimas, Saturn’s smallest moon. Sure, its massive Herschel crater might make it look like the “Death Star” space station from Star Wars, but it’s ...

Saturn's moon Titan has insulating methane-rich crust up to six miles thick. ScienceDaily . Retrieved November 20, 2024 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 10 / 241025122818.htm ...

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is the only place other than Earth known to have an atmosphere and liquids in the form of rivers, lakes and seas on its surface. Because of its extremely cold ...

On October 25, 1671, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered a new moon at Saturn! ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com Iapetus was the second moon anyone had ever found ...