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 ...

But theirs were fast-paced flyby tours; scientists wanted a longer-term Saturn orbiter and Titan probe to truly explore the complex system. To that end, 25 years ago, a mighty Titan IVB/Centaur ...

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 ...

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 ...

If all the objects are recognized by scientific authorities, the ringed giant world will have 145 moons in its orbit. Saturn and several of its moons, including Tethys, Dione and Rhea while Mimas ...