This global map of Saturn’s moon Dione was created using images taken during flybys by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. An extensive system of bright ice cliffs created by tectonic fractures adorns the moon ...

Back in the 1980s, NASA’s Voyager spacecraft made a brief flyby of Saturn’s moons, providing us with a tantalising glimpse of new worlds. Now, the Cassini mission has finished the job, providing us ...

Although not an official conjunction, three planets and the Moon are grouped within about 10 degrees of the Sun today. Except for the Moon, which will move on into the evening sky, the planets will be ...

An international team led by the University of Nantes has pieced together images gathered over six years by the Cassini mission to create a global mosaic of the surface of Titan. The global maps and ...

As we learn more about the outer solar system, scientists have reassessed how they think about moons. Once seen as freeze-dried wastelands, we now believe many of the larger moons around planets like ...

(Nanowerk News) A water vapor plume from Saturn’s moon Enceladus spanning more than 6,000 miles – nearly the distance from Los Angeles, California to Buenos Aires, Argentina – has been detected by ...

Scientific study of the planet Saturn has often been bogged down by a seemingly simple yet impossible to answer mystery. How long is a day on the sixth planet from the sun? Unlike Earth, where a ...

Astro Bob blog: Sun keeps close company with the planets / New color maps of Saturn's moons Hidden by sunlight today, the New Moon and three planets parade across the sky in the constellations Libra ...