Mimas, one of Saturn’s smaller moons, gained its nickname after astronomers noticed a massive crater dominating its surface. The impact scar is so large that it gives the moon an uncanny resemblance ...

Saturn’s “Death Star”-like moon Mimas may have a boiling ocean under its icy shell. The moon pitted with craters—including a very large one, giving it its nickname—may appear to be geologically dead, ...

So were the words uttered by Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi when he gazed upon the doomsday weapon, the Death Star, in 1977’s “Star Wars,” later subtitled “Episode IV: A New Hope.” The spherical ...

Saturn's moons Mimas (right) and Janus appear to hang silently in space as they orbit their ringed parent planet in this stunning photo from NASA's Cassini spacecraft at Saturn. The outer edge of ...

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