It doesn't happen often that Mercury ranks as the planetary highlight of the evening sky, but July is an exception. The solar ...

From the start, Cassini provided us with incredible views of these icy worlds, including Titan, Enceladus, Mimas, Dione, and others. Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, stood out as a primary object of ...

Saturn's moon, Dione, imaged by NASA's Cassini in Feb 2008. (Credit: NASA) We recently explored Saturn’s walnut-shaped moon, Iapetus, to include its two-toned surface features and equatorial ridge.

At the time the photo was snapped Dione, the head of the snowman, was 685,000 miles from Cassini while Rhea was 995,000 miles from Cassini. The two moons aren't the same size as they appear in the ...

Dione is about as far away from Saturn as the moon is from Earth. Rhea is farther away. While Dione completes an orbit in 2.7 days, Rhea's trip around the ringed planet takes 4.5 days.

Saturn’s moon Dione appears to be getting its tiger on. The world is decorated with long, bright stripes, according to a new study, something astronomers say is unlike anything else they’ve seen in ...

The scientists have discovered mysterious straight bright stripes on Saturn's moon Dione. According to the research by Planetary Science Institute Associate Research Scientist Alex Patthoff, the ...

Saturn’s moon Dione is streaked with long bright stripes, and no one knows how they got there.. Planetary scientists first noticed the stripes in pictures taken with NASA’s Cassini spacecraft ...

The battered face of Saturn's frigid moon Dione gets a close-up in a gorgeous photo by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Though the image was released Monday (March 12), Cassini took it on July 23, 2012 ...

The battered face of Saturn's frigid moon Dione gets a close-up in a gorgeous photo by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Though the image was released Monday (March 12), Cassini took it on July 23, 2012, ...