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 ...

Saturn’s two-faced moon Iapetus reaches its greatest western elongation today. At western elongation, the moon’s lighter hemisphere is turned toward Earth, making it brightest and easiest to view ...

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 moon Iapetus reaches western elongation today, when it is at its brightest. Now around 10th magnitude, you can find Iapetus some 10’ west of Saturn. The ringed planet is already above the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 31, 2004, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft flew by Iapetus, Saturn’s third largest moon.Iapetus was discovered by the Italian ...

What is probably most unusual about the moon is its shape. Iapetus is not shaped like most large moons. Instead, it has a unique bulging ridge around its equator that makes it shaped like a walnut, ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – Iapetus is often called Saturn’s most bizarre moon, due to its starkly contrasting hemispheres – one black as coal, the other white as snow. Images taken by the Cassini-Huygens ...

For centuries, people wondered how the leopard got its spots. The consensus is pretty solid that evolution played a major role. But it’s only been five years since the arrival of high-resolution ...

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. Subscribe to read this ...

Extensive analyses and modeling of Cassini imaging and heat-mapping data have confirmed and extended previous ideas that migrating ice, triggered by infalling reddish dust that darkens and warms the ...

A large crater can be seen in the southern hemisphere of Saturn’s two-tone moon Iapetus. Lit terrain seen here is on the trailing hemisphere of Iapetus (914 miles, or 1,471 kilometers across), a moon ...

This coming week there will be something for everyone in the night sky whatever instrument you choose: telescope, binoculars or naked eyeballs. The biggest asteroid, Ceres, and brightest, Vesta, have ...