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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are many odd things about Iapetus, the icy moon of Saturn. One of its most striking features is the strange two-tone coloration of its surface, likely due to the evaporation of water ice leaving ...

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 ...

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. Iapetus, the ...

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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 ...

Why is Saturn’s moon Iapetus so freaking weird? Well, everything about Saturn and its moons is weird. But the 1500 km (900 mile) wide moon Iapetus may win the prize for the most bizarro. It has a ...

Moons in the solar system come in many different forms. Some are boulder-sized, while one is larger than the planet Mercury. Some are mixtures of rock and iron, while others hide oceans and rocky ...

Clear as black and white, Saturn's moon Iapetus is two-faced. One half is dark as coal and the other is as bright as fresh linens. Astronomers have puzzled over the stark difference since late in the ...