“Radar images from the Cassini mission reveal elongated streaks on Titan's surface that can extend for hundreds of kilometers ...
The view was acquired on Sept. 14, 2017 at 19:59 UTC (spacecraft event time). The view was taken in visible light using the ...
A theory involving a "mushy zone" of ice along the moon’s fissures could explain the enormous plumes erupting from its south ...
Saturn’s moons have been the subject of a lot of astronomical attention over the years. They range in size from the ...
The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...
The wind on Saturn's largest moon is strong enough to blow around rocks of up to half a metre in diameter, which could put NASA's upcoming Dragonfly mission at risk ...
Iapetus features a high-contrast surface of light and dark. As such, it has been dubbed the yin and yang of the Saturn moons. Iapetus, like Rhea, is thought to be composed of ice and rock.
Not that it was a competition, but Saturn surpassed Jupiter in known moons a few years ago. Now the giant planet may never ...
Meanwhile, Saturn is 9.5 astronomical units away from the sun, according to astronomers. Instead of a rocky surface like Mercury, hydrogen and helium mostly make up Saturn’s surface, with ...
Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has long been considered ... towering plumes of water vapor erupting from the moon's frozen surface, for instance, and it was later theorized that these geysers come ...