CARNEGIE INSTITUTION FOR SCIENCE "Studying the orbits of these moons can reveal their origins, as well as information about the conditions surrounding Saturn at the time of its formation," said Dr ...

Discovered by William Herschel in 1789, Saturn’s icy moon Mimas is 246 miles in diameter and orbits just outside the visible rings. It has an enormous impact crater, discovered in 1980 and named in ...

This Hubble time-lapse movie shows the orbits of some of Saturn's icy moons as they circle the planet over an 18-hour period. The video is composed of 33 Hubble snapshots of the planet ...

the largest of Saturn's irregular moons—and like its parent moon, the Phoebe ring orbits in retrograde. Saturn's rings are named in alphabetical order, according to the order in which they were ...

Research involving astrophysicists from Queen Mary University of London has shown that the moons of Saturn are moving outwards faster than first estimated, providing new insights into how the Saturn ...

Credit: Chris Vaughan/Starry Night Saturn gets close to the moon tonight, and skywatchers in Florida, northwestern South America, the Caribbean and Central America will see the ringed planet ...

or Saturn's moon Phoebe are good examples. However, Phobos and Deimos have neatly circular orbits aligned with Mars' ...