The appearance of one of Saturn's smallest ... would make the tiny moon a prime location for astronomers to study the origins of life in the solar system. "Its heavily cratered surface gave ...

While the pair could be seen in the night sky by the unaided eye, binoculars or a telescope would have allowed viewers to see details of the lunar surface, as well as Saturn's rings and moons.

Twenty years ago today, I watched TV coverage of a probe descending toward the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn, while outside my home in Utah snow dusted a rocky mountain outcrop I’d ...

Twenty years ago today, I watched TV coverage of a probe descending toward the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn, while outside my home in Utah snow dusted a rocky mountain outcrop I’d ...

binoculars or a telescope would have allowed viewers to see details of the lunar surface, as well as Saturn's rings and moons. In fact, the lunar occultation of Saturn was only visible across ...

Once there, they'd perform several flybys of Saturn's other moons that could harbor oceans, such as Dione, Mimas and Rhea ... that have snowed back onto the surface from the plumes.

Planetary scientists don’t care about Mimas, Saturn ... surface. Published in the Geophysical Research Letters journal this week, the new research came about from an examination of the moon ...

Cassini named the four moons that he discovered – Iapetus, Tethys and Dione in addition ... s water-ice surface is peppered with energetic particles that were trapped in Saturn’s magnetic ...