If Saturn had a large icy moon, it would’ve aided in tipping Saturn over and in Titan’s motion away from the planet. But this caused that moon to have a close encounter with the planet, ...

Saturn moon names and dates of discovery. ... A large trench crosses the moon, ... It is a small, potato-shaped moon with a spongy-looking texture.

Separation between Saturn and the moon's upper edge is given in terms of minutes of arc (the apparent width of the moon on Nov. 10 is 33 arc minutes) and the equivalent given in angular degrees ...

If you're looking for something to gaze at before then, the moon and Saturn are going to be very close together on Aug. 20. ... We recommend a magnification device if you live in a large city.

A mere decade ago, astronomers knew of just 62 moons around Saturn. Astronomer Edward Ashton is no exception, even though he has helped to discover 192 of them—he thinks that’s the total ...

One of Saturn's icy moons may have been ripped apart 160 million years ago, a new study suggests. The disintegrated moon could explain two mysteries.

The 6,000-mile plume, detected by the telescope as it blasted from the moon's south pole toward Saturn's trademark rings, is roughly 20 times the length of Enceladus itself.

Scientists said on Thursday the destruction of a large moon that strayed too close to Saturn would account both for the birth of the gas giant planet's magnificent rings.

This lost moon, the authors of the study say, is responsible for Saturn’s trademark feature: the rings. These astronomers didn’t set out to find a missing moon.

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 is famed for its beautiful rings, but these rings are something of a puzzle. Now, new research suggests they could have formed from a lost moon.

Saturn’s moon Mimas and it’s large Herschel Crater, is captured by the Cassini spacecraft. . (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have found the best ...