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Cassini Images Ring Arcs Among Saturn's Moons

Sep 05, 2008 | 4.7 / 5 (7) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected a faint, partial ring orbiting with one small moon of Saturn, and has confirmed the presence of another partial ring orbiting with a second moon. This ...

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Four of Saturn's moons parade by their parent

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Mar 17, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

On 24 February 2009, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured a photo sequence of four moons of Saturn passing in front of their parent planet. The moons, from far left to right, are the white icy moons ...

Scientists find rings of Jupiter are shaped in shadow

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Apr 30, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (11) | 1

Scientists from the University of Maryland and the Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany appear to have solved a long-standing mystery about the cause of anomalies in Jupiter's gossamer ...

Will Kepler find habitable moons?

Space & Earth / Astronomy

Sep 03, 2009 | 5 / 5 (14) | 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the launch of the NASA Kepler Mission earlier this year, astronomers have been keenly awaiting the first detection of an Earth-like planet around another star. Now, in an echo of science ...

Images of Saturn's Small Moons Tell the Story of Their Origins

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 06, 2007 | 4.6 / 5 (18) | 0

Imaging scientists on NASA's Cassini mission are telling a tale of how the small moons orbiting near the outer rings of Saturn came to be. The moons began as leftover shards from larger bodies that broke apart ...

Spectacular Photo-op on Saturn

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Feb 19, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (7) | 0

Something is about to happen on Saturn that's so pretty, even Hubble will pause to take a look.

Kuiper Belt Moons Are Starting to Seem Typical

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Jan 11, 2006 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 0

In the not-too-distant past, the planet Pluto was thought to be an odd bird in the outer reaches of the solar system because it has a moon, Charon, that was formed much like Earth's own moon was formed. But Pluto is getting ...

How the moon got its stripes

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 15, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (7) | 5

A new study has revealed the origins of tiger stripes and a subsurface ocean on Enceladus- one of Saturn's many moons. These geological features are believed to be the result of the moon's unusual chemical ...

Detecting Life-Friendly Moons

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 26, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (11) | 3

The search for life-friendly real estate around distant stars doesn't have to be limited to planets. New research shows that habitable exomoons can be detected with a new method using current technology.

New Views of Martian Moons

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 28, 2007 | 4 / 5 (31) | 0

These two images taken by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) show Mars' two small moons, Phobos and Deimos, as seen from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's low orbit around Mars. ...