Visual: The moon is named for a titan in Greek mythology who is the brother of Y. Together, Epimetheus and Y stand for Hindsight and Foresight. Name Y, the image depicts him performing a legendary ...

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 ...

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 ...

That lumpy pierogi in the photo above is Saturn’s moon Epimetheus, taken by the Cassini spacecraft in December 2015. This is a pretty cool shot; instead of the sharp blackness of space behind the moon ...

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 ...

It's a hard-knock life for Saturn's moon Epimetheus. The pale-gray moon, which NASA's website describes as "potato-shaped," is covered in craters from eons of merciless collisions with space debris.

Saturn has a great many more moons than our planet – a whopping 62. A single moon, Titan, accounts for an overwhelming 96% of all the material orbit the planet, with a group of six other smaller moons ...

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 ...

Data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft are helping to explain how Atlas, Daphnis, Epimetheus, Pan and Pandora are distinctive among Saturn’s many satellites. By Nadia Drake Saturn has more than 60 moons, ...