Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month.Become a Plus Member When I saw the image above, I literally gasped. It’s an amazing photo, showing ...

Daphnis, one of Saturn’s ring-embedded moons, is featured in this view, kicking up waves as it orbits within the Keeler gap. The mosaic combines several images to show more waves in the gap edges than ...

Editor’s Note: This story was included in The Athletic’s Best of 2019. See the full list. MIAMI — Many college football fans remember the photo. A huddle of two dozen baby-faced, teenage college ...

Daphnis, one of Saturn's small ring-embedded moons, is seen here kicking up waves as it orbits within a gap between rows of icy ring particles. The image was taken by the international Cassini mission ...

The wavemaker moon, Daphnis, is featured in this view, taken as NASA's Cassini spacecraft made one of its ring-grazing passes over the outer edges of Saturn's rings on Jan. 16, 2017. This is the ...

Daphnis, one of Saturn’s small ring-embedded moons, is seen here kicking up waves as it orbits within a gap between rows of icy ring particles. The image was taken by the international Cassini mission ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month.Become a Plus Member Today is a difficult day. And it’s just the latest in what have been very, very ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft at Saturn just keeps sending us treasures. In this image, taken January 16, we see the moon Daphnis, a 5-mile diameter chunk of rock and ice, orbiting inside a gap at the ...

While trucks across the northwestern US pushed around snow this week, a Mount Everest-size rock near Saturn continued a multicentury effort of clearing its own lane in the planet's expansive disc of ...