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An international team of astronomers working with the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have discovered a whopping 128 more ...
The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...
In 2005, an alien probe flew through the hazy and cold atmosphere of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, and landed on the world's surface. That spacecraft -- named the Huygens probe -- was sent ...
Saturn's other moons are smaller, with diameters of less than 1600 kilometres. Some of these, such as Pan, Atlas, Prometheus and Pandora, are known as 'shepherd moons', which means that they ...
A theory involving a "mushy zone" of ice along the moon’s fissures could explain the enormous plumes erupting from its south pole. Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has long been considered a ...