New models suggest Saturn's gravity shredded a moon, Chrysalis, about 160 million years ago. The ancient moon could explain two long-standing mysteries: Saturn's iconic rings and dramatic tilt.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft finds wobble in Saturn's 'Death Star' moon Mimas that could mean ... the researchers built a precise 3D computer model of hundreds of reference points on the moon’s ...

But in about 5 percent of the models, Chrysalis would end up in an eccentric orbit that caused it to graze Saturn's surface, causing the moon to break up and allowing part of its contents to enter ...

This evidence aligns with the hypothesis that Saturn’s rings and some of its moons are geologically young. Cassini’s detailed observations provided crucial insights into the rings’ age and mass.

Asphaug and Reufer propose that the Saturn system started with a family of major satellites comparable to the four large moons of Jupiter (known as the Galilean moons, discovered by Galileo in 1610).

Its giant crater covers almost one-third of the moon's icy surface. For the past 10 years,the Cassini space probe has been collecting data on Mimas, Saturn and the ringed wonder's other natural ...

Virtual 3D models are often made of several layers, including color, depth, and texture. In this case, the displacement map gives the resulting 3D model the peaks and valleys we see on the Moon ...

Calculations of the orbits of five small moons of Saturn suggest that they are the offspring of the planet's rings.

Saturn is a gas giant, of course. The gases at its surface and more exotic types of matter in its interior collectively act as a fluid. Because there are all these moons orbiting around Saturn ...

The moon is tidally locked around Saturn, meaning that one side of Rhea constantly faces the large planet. It completes an entire orbit of the gas giant in 4.5 Earth days. Rhea is a cold, harsh world.

Saturn and several of its moons appear in this image snapped by Cassini in 2007. The entire system, save one moon, appears to have water similar to that of Earth, which is unexpected based on our ...

Scientists have found that one of Saturn's moons might be harboring an ocean of water beneath its icy surface. Mimas, which is Saturn's 7th largest moon and resembles the Death Star from Star Wars ...