Over the last few years, the term "Goldilocks zone" has come to be widely used to describe the range of distances from a star ...

Over the last few years, the term "Goldilocks zone" has come to be widely used to describe the range of distances from a star ...

Over the last few years, the term “Goldilocks Zone” has become widely used to describe the range of distances from a star ...

Because of potential water and a source of heat, Olympus Mons has been suggested as a place to look for potential alien life; ...

Saturn’s two-toned moon reaches its greatest western elongation, when it shines brightest far west of the ringed planet.

Wausau Pilot & Review Skywatchers across central Wisconsin can look forward to a spectacular week of celestial activity, including a bright planetary ...

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 ...

Their model estimates Chrysalis was roughly the size of Iapetus, Saturn's third-largest moon. Wisdom and his colleagues theorize that sometime between 100 million and 200 million years ago ...

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 has quite the collection of moons, more than any other planet in the solar system. There’s Enceladus, blanketed in ice, with a briny ocean beneath its surface. There’s Iapetus ...