Discovering small Saturnian moons could help in understanding more about Saturn and in future resource-mining. The ...

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. When Giovanni Cassini discovered Iapetus in 1671, he noted that the ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

Astronomers stunned to find Saturn has 128 more moons in rare discovery - The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total ...

Turns out, there’s a lot more floating around the planet Saturn than those famous rings. Space scientists announced last week ...

"Sure enough, we found 128 new moons." Saturn's first moon, Titan, was discovered in 1655 by Christiaan Huygens, and in the following decades, Jean-Dominique Cassini discovered Iapetus, Rhea ...

The giant moon Titan in front of Saturn's edge-on rings, seen by the Cassini spacecraft in 2012. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Each of the 128 new moons are between 2 and 4 ...

For the last 13 years, Cassini has explored Saturn and its moons. But its time will come to an end this September, when it will enter Saturn's atmosphere and burn up. Follow Tech Insider ...

The current naming scheme for moons on Saturn is based on characters from Norse and other mythology. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft burned up in Saturn’s atmosphere in September 2017, after 20 ...

For the last 13 years, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spied on Saturn and its many moons. Turns out, this region of space could hold the greatest secrets of our solar system. Here are 5 of the most ...

Saturn's population of moons is intricately linked to its rings. Some of its moons shape the rings and are called "shepherd moons." Moons also create gaps in the rings, like the Cassini division ...

It might be loading or has been removed. Cassini is nearing the end of its more than 10-year mission to explore Saturn and many of its 53 known moons. The spacecraft has been exploring the ...