Summer nights offer lots of interesting sights this month. Mercury and Mars are on show in the evening twilight. Both Uranus ...

This summer, skywatchers will be treated to a rare spectacle visible from Earth: the shadow of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, ...

There will be several chances to see the shadow of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, pass across the ringed planet's Earth-facing ...

A new study proposes that seeding the orb’s underground ocean with microbes might help us learn how to make other worlds habitable ...

Saturn's moons were thrust into the spotlight during the Voyager 1, ... The small moon orbits closer to Saturn than Enceladus and has a much larger eccentric (elongated) orbit.

Pan orbits Saturn from inside a gap in one of the planet’s rings, the post explained, making an orbit around the planet every 13.8 hours at an altitude of 83,000 miles.

Saturn was already the reigning champion in the moon department. Now, with 274, Saturn has more moons than all the other planets combined.

A team of scientists — including a Canadian from the University of British Columbia — have identified an additional 128 moons orbiting the ringed planet, bringing Saturn's total moon count to 274.

In recent years, Saturn and Jupiter have been in a moon race of their own. In 2019, Saturn took the lead with 20 new natural satellites, bringing its tally up to 82.Then Jupiter surged ahead to 92 ...

Saturn, too tiny to make out, lies at the center of a swarm of 274 moons shown her at their correct relative distances from the planet. The blue and red arcs represent the moons' orbits.

They swing around Saturn in chaotic, distant orbits, often moving in reverse relative to the planet’s major moons, such as Titan and Rhea. The moon that made Saturn a pushover ...

Regular moons tend to orbit their planets in nice, circular orbits around the equator. Irregular moons typically orbit in big ovals further away from planets, and at a range of angles. Saturn has ...