Life is hard for a little moon. Epimetheus, seen here with Saturn in the background, is lumpy and misshapen, thanks in part to its size and formation process. Epimetheus did not form with all of those ...

Discover what Saturn’s Moon Epimetheus is. Learn who discovered it, size, icy composition, co-orbital dance with Janus & key facts about this fascinating celestial body. Epimetheus helps scientists ...

A pair of Saturn’s moons appear insignificant compared to the immensity of the planet in this Cassini spacecraft view along the terminator where day transitions to night. The larger moon Enceladus ...

Epimetheus (116 kilometers, 72 miles across) is seen here from just beneath the ring plane, along with Saturn's intriguing F ring. The bright, knotted core of the F ring is flanked on both sides by ...

Once upon a time, long ago, the great god Zeus overcame the gigantic race, the Titans, to become the most powerful god. He ruled over Olympus and banished the Titans to Tartarus, but he spared two of ...

Cassini’s camera was pointing toward Epimetheus and the image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters. This image has not been validated or calibrated. A validated/calibrated image will be archived ...

It is possible for two objects to share the same orbits, but not the exact same orbit. Saturn’s moons Janus and Epimetheus run on orbits that differ in size by only 30 miles (50 km). This similarity ...

Make that a baker’s dozen of new Saturn moons. On May 5, Carolyn Porco of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and leader of Cassini’s imaging team, announced the discovery of another ...