Iapetus features a high-contrast surface of light and dark. As such, it has been dubbed the yin and yang of the Saturn moons. Iapetus, like Rhea, is thought to be composed of ice and rock.

Saturn’s moons have been the subject of a lot of astronomical attention over the years. They range in size from the ...

The wind on Saturn's largest moon is strong enough to blow around rocks of up to half a metre in diameter, which could put ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far beyond any other planet in our solar system. A natural-color view of ...

The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...

Are there more out there? And what exactly makes something a moon, anyway? These new discoveries cement Saturn’s place as the winner of the Solar System’s moon competition, with more confirmed ...

Not that it was a competition, but Saturn surpassed Jupiter in known moons a few years ago. Now the giant planet may never ...

Harvard astronomers have announced the discovery of over 100 previously undiscovered moons orbiting the planet Saturn.

Saturn runs rings around Jupiter Ratification of 128 new moons put the smaller gas giant way ahead on satellite count The ...

The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision about 100 million years ago.

A team using the telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii has just discovered 128 new moons orbiting Saturn. Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun, was already the reigning champion of moon-having.