Cassini has sighted Prometheus and Pandora, the two F-ring-shepherding moons whose unpredictable orbits both fascinate scientists and wreak havoc on the F ring. Prometheus (102 kilometers, or 63 miles ...

These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn’s moon Dione were taken on Dec. 12, 2011, by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Although Cassini obtained more detailed images on previous flybys of Dione, this was the ...

IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY Prometheus, a Titan, stole fire from Mount Olympus to give to humans, whom he created. That did not go down well with Zeus, king of the gods. He sentenced Prometheus to the daily ...

Saturn's F ring is chaperoned on both sides by the tiny moons Prometheus and Pandora. Numerical simulations show that this celestial ballet can result from the collision of two aggregates that evolved ...

When San Francisco Ballet’s new Artistic Director Tamara Rojo first approached Aszure Barton about revisiting the myths of Prometheus and Pandora, the choreographer wasn’t exactly sold. “I had to ...

A pair of moons, Pandora and Prometheus, continue their shepherding duties near Saturn’s thin F ring. Pandora (81 kilometers, or 50 miles across) orbits outside the F ring and, with the inner shepherd ...