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 ...

Men could live with these arrangements and celebrated Persephone's return each year. Once more they feasted the immortals at splendid banquets, with roasts and stews of beef and goat and lamb, and 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 ...

Examining the differences in the way men and women were viewed in ancient Greece and biblical Israel, the story of Pandora and Prometheus and the story of Adam and Eve. In these days of cancel culture ...

Prometheus is a prequel of sorts to the 1979 science fiction-horror film Alien, also directed by Ridley Scott. The new film, the fifth installment in the Alien franchise, takes place in the year 2089 ...

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 ...

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 ...