Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. June 24: Look for Lutetia's light Saturn's two-toned moon Iapetus is now halfway between its eastern and western elongations ...

Saturn’s moon Iapetus reaches inferior conjunction tonight, sitting 1.3′ due north of Saturn and glowing at roughly 11th magnitude. This oft-elusive moon is easier to find when it is close to its ...

Saturn’s moon Iapetus reaches western elongation today, when it is at its brightest. Now around 10th magnitude, you can find Iapetus some 10’ west of Saturn. The ringed planet is already above the ...

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 ...

Images returned by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft cameras during a New Year’s Eve flyby of Saturn¿s moon Iapetus (eye-APP-eh-tuss) show startling surface features that are fueling heated scientific ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 31, 2004, NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew by Iapetus, Saturn's third largest moon.Iapetus was discovered by the Italian ...

Iapetus may be Saturn’s most enigmatic moon, with an unknown dark material splattering most of the surface and a strange ridge that makes one side of the moon resemble a walnut. Astronomers hope the ...

Recent data from the Cassini mission to Saturn have shed new light on the surface of the saturnian moon Iapetus, particularly the presence and movement of carbon dioxide. University of Arizona ...

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. November 15: Ceres passes a double star Saturn's moon Iapetus reaches western elongation today, when it is at its brightest.