The thin, outermost ring in the photo is composed of particles shepherded by the gravity of two moons orbiting around it.

When a planet's orbit brings it between Earth and a distant star, it's more than just a cosmic game of hide and seek. It's an ...

While all the ingredients are there, the moon's composition likely prevents them from coming together in any meaningful way.

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a fascinating world that is unique among moons of the outer solar system. It's shrouded in a ...

New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

Titan may seem like a prime candidate for alien life with its organic-rich surface and deep subsurface ocean, but new ...

Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun, captivates scientists with its massive size, stunning rings, and diverse moons. Composed primarily of hydrogen ...

This is the moment a huge chunk of ice broke off a glacier and plunged into the water on the Vallunaraju mountain in Peru on ...

"There has been this sense that because Titan has such abundant organics, there is no shortage of food sources that could ...

Consider Enceladus, for example, which is much smaller than the other Saturn moons but has a dense ice crust and explosive geysers that shoot water vapor and ice particles into space from under a ...

Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...

Saturn’s largest moon might not be the barren world it seems. Beneath Titan’s icy crust lies a vast ocean of liquid ...