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On October 25, 1671, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered a new moon at Saturn! ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com Iapetus was the second moon anyone had ever found ...

Named formally after the Greek mythological Titan, Iapetus is sometimes referred to as the "painted," or "yin-yang" moon, due to puzzling variations in its surface composition. Watch ...

On the other hand, Saturn’s most distant moon, Phoebe, requires 550 Earth days to make its way once around the planet. The moons’ distances from their host planet are measured as multiples of ...

A SUPER-HOT planet 1500 light years away has been seen waxing and waning like the moon. The discovery hints that hot gas giants come in two varieties. The phases of Corot 1b were detected by a ...

Cassini scientists are poring through hundreds of images returned from the Sept. 10 fly-by of Saturn's two-toned moon Iapetus. The pictures show the moon's yin and yang -- a white hemisphere ...