Saturn's moon, Iapetus, imaged by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in September 2007. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) We recently explored Saturn’s moon, Pan, and its unique, food-like ...

Saturn’s distinctive moon Iapetus (eye-APP-eh-tuss) is cryogenically frozen in the equivalent of its teenage years. The moon has retained the youthful figure and bulging waistline it sported more than ...

Call it moonception, if you’d like. Astronomers say that a moon-with-a-moon scenario could explain some of the strange features of Iapetus, the third-largest of Saturn’s 62-known moons. Iapetus was ...

Saturn's moon Iapetus exhibits greatest western elongation, positioned 9.5 arcminutes west of Saturn, presenting its brighter, icy hemisphere towards Earth, reaching a 10th magnitude brightness.

There are many odd things about Iapetus, the icy moon of Saturn. One of its most striking features is the strange two-tone coloration of its surface, likely due to the evaporation of water ice leaving ...

On Dec. 31, 2004, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft flew by Iapetus, Saturn’s third largest moon. Iapetus was discovered by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini in 1671. NASA’s Cassini craft flew by the ...

Saturn, at magnitude 0.7, will be visible in southwestern Pisces below the Circlet asterism, rising at 10 P.M. local daylight time and reaching its highest point around 2:30 A.M. Saturn's rings, ...

More than 60 moons are known to orbit Saturn, but few of them are as visually striking as Iapetus. Named formally after the Greek mythological Titan, Iapetus is sometimes referred to as the “painted,” ...

The giant ridge around the middle of Saturn moon's Iapetus that makes it resemble an oversize walnut may have essentially formed as a "hug" from a dead moon, researchers say. Iapetus, the ...

Images returned by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft cameras during a New Year’s Eve flyby of Saturn¿s moon Iapetus (eye-APP-eh-tuss) show startling surface features that are fueling heated scientific ...

This series of maps of Saturn's moon Iapetus shows how a computer model of migrating ice can explain most features of Iapetus' global appearance. The model starts with Iapetus uniformly covered in ice ...

Clear as black and white, Saturn's moon Iapetus is two-faced. One half is dark as coal and the other is as bright as fresh linens. Astronomers have puzzled over the stark difference since late in the ...