In 2005, NASA's Cassini Saturn orbiter took images of Saturn's moon Enceladus, and discovered geysers blasting particles of water ice into space from fractures near the south pole. The observation ...

Cassini found several moons orbiting Saturn, and as of 2023, the planet’s known number of moons in its orbit is almost 150. Titan On January 14, 2005 , the Huygens probe landed on Titan and ...

Saturn is tilted at 26.73 degrees on its orbit, while Earth is very close to that at a 23.5-degree tilt. When the two planets line up just right, the rings of Saturn are almost entirely horizontal ...

That's according to new research that ties in the creation of the glorious rings with the outward migration of Titan and a resonance between the rotation of Saturn and the orbit of Neptune.

A collision of such size could explain the small moons that orbit Saturn. Here's what to know about Saturn's newly-discovered moons. The new moons are only a few kilometers across in size (one ...

Saturn's characteristic rings are made of chunks of ice and rock, thought to have fallen into orbit around the planet after larger cosmic bodies were torn apart by Saturn's gravity. The rings ...

In the process of those interactions, however, the moon spun out of orbit, got close to Saturn, and was destroyed, creating the ring material. While the models don't tell us this is definitively ...