Calypso: Discovered in March 1980 by Dan Pascu ... 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.
Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...
A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.
The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...
The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision ...
An international team of astronomers working with the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have discovered a whopping 128 more ...
Saturn just solidified its title as ‘moon king’ with an updated tally of 274 satellites orbiting the gas giant. The ...
The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...