Earlier this year, researchers discovered that a vast liquid ocean lurks beneath the icy shell of Saturn's tiny moon, Mimas. Now the same team may have discovered how it was created. New research ...

Now another moon appears to be secretly flooded. Saturn’s moon Mimas, known for its uncanny resemblance to the Star Wars Death Star, might harbor liquid water beneath its icy shell. If true ...

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

Saturn's icy ocean moon, Enceladus, has the whitest ... that gives the rocky moon a strong resemblance to the fictional Death Star in the "Star Wars" movies. The impact stands out despite the ...

SEE ALSO: Please send me to Saturn's 'Death Star moon' so that I may climb its mountains On April 22nd, Cassini will make a close flyby of Saturn's moon Titan that will bend the spacecraft's orbit ...

Exactly how the other rings formed is a mystery, but one theory is that sometime in the past, a moon or large comet got too close to Saturn and was ripped apart by its gravity. As to when this ...

Saturn just solidified its title as ‘moon king’ with an updated tally of 274 satellites orbiting the gas giant. The record-breaking statistic puts Saturn way ahead of its moon-bearing competitors, as ...

This helped the team determine what objects were moving near the planet, like stars, and others that were remaining in orbit of Saturn − the moons. Ashton was only able to take photos of Saturn during ...

What’s being called the Christmas Star is not really a star but instead the planets Jupiter and Saturn coming so close to each other that they will appear to be one giant star. “They’re ...

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 ...

A good example of the issue is on Saturn's moon Mimas, which has a distinctly Death Star-like appearance thanks to the huge Herschel crater on one side of the moon. Lakdawalla pointed out that the ...

A theory involving a "mushy zone" of ice along the moon’s fissures could explain the enormous plumes erupting from its south pole. Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has long been considered a ...