Far out in the Saturn system, a small world refuses to behave. Iapetus spins in a way that should not be so stable, wears a ...

Iapetus, a moon of Saturn, reaches its greatest western elongation, resulting in its brightest observable appearance from Earth due to its lighter hemisphere being oriented towards the observer.

Saturn’s Moon Iapetus has a unique feature which was, until recently, a complete mystery. The mountains of Iapetus Running along its equator is this weird ridge of mountains. The mountains run exactly ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Saturn certainly has some oddball moons and astronomers think they're close to explaining how a ...

Enigmatically, some landslides flow farther than normal frictional resistance allows. Cassini images of Saturn's icy moon Iapetus reveal a multitude of long-runout landslides that may have been ...

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 ...

On Dec. 31, 2004, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft flew by Iapetus, Saturn’s third largest moon. Iapetus was discovered by the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The light and dark faces of Saturn's moon Iapetus create a contrast that helped to hide the ...

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 ...

Two scientists propose an explanation for the bizarre ridge belting Saturn's moon Iapetus at the equator. At one time Iapetus itself may have had a satellite, created by a giant impact with another ...

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 ...