Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...

Visible in the early-morning sky today, Saturn’s two-toned moon Iapetus reaches superior conjunction just 1.4′ due south of Saturn. The proximity makes the now-11th-magnitude moon easier to find, as ...

Skywatchers in central Wisconsin can expect a stunning week ahead, with planetary pairings, moon phases and celestial ...

Since Iapetus was the forefather of humanity in Greek mythology, this provides even more reason for associating him with Noah’s son Japheth, the forefather of the Greeks. Another of Uranus’ sons was ...

The Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens had discovered Titan, the largest of Saturn's moons, about six years earlier. After Cassini found Iapetus, he also found the moons Rhea, Tethys and Dione.

Titan is the largest moon of Saturn, and the second-largest moon in our solar system. Interestingly amongst the hundreds of moons in our solar system, Titan is the only one with a thick atmosphere.

The Titan calamity began on June 18, 2023, when the craft was reported missing in the North Atlantic. Five days later, on June 22, the Coast Guard, citing the discovery of debris from the Titan ...

The dark material on Iapetus is thought to have hailed from elsewhere, notes Radebaugh, who was not involved in the research. So it’s plausible that Titan’s sands could have otherworldly ...

It experienced a number of close encounters with Titan and Iapetus "and eventually has a grazing encounter with Saturn, breaking it apart and forming the rings," Wisdom says.