Grab your telescope and aim it at Saturn in the early morning hours of Aug. 19 to see Titan's colossal shadow sweep across ...

The colossal shadow of Titan, Saturn's largest and most mysterious moon, will glide across the vibrant cloud bands of the ...

One of the last few Titan shadow transits of the year takes place overnight tonight, with several of Saturn’s other moons ...

A rare celestial event is about to unfold in Earth’s night skies on August 19, 2025, when Saturn and its largest moon, Titan, ...

Since May, amateur astronomers around the globe have been reporting successful glimpses of Titan's inky shadow gliding over ...

On August 19, Saturn 's largest moon, Titan, will cast its shadow on the planet. This rare event can be witnessed in the ...

Titan’s shadow begins a transit Aug. 3 at 2:04 a.m. EDT. It takes about 17 minutes for the shadow to fully appear. Local atmospheric conditions will affect how well you see ingress.

Once every 15 years, Saturn 's rings align edge-on with Earth, heralding the onset of a spectacular series of shadow transits as the large moon Titan passes between the gas giant's cloud surface ...

Titan's next shadow transit will get underway at 3 a.m. EDT (0700 GMT) on July 18, at which time the moon's dark outline will be visible slowly progressing across Saturn's cloudy disk, according ...

Another is that even though Titan's orbit is almost exactly in the same plane as the rings, its shadow is really far south of the rings' shadow. That's because spring has started in Saturn's northern ...

Saturn's largest moon Titan will cast its shadow over the gas giant's cloud tops on Aug. 19. Here's how to follow the rare shadow transit with a telescope.

Titan orbits Saturn much farther out (1.2 million km from Saturn, very roughly 10 times farther out than the main rings on the average). Over that distance, the angle of the moon's shadow carries it ...