Saturn’s two-faced moon Iapetus reaches its greatest western elongation today. At western elongation, the moon’s lighter hemisphere is turned toward Earth, making it brightest and easiest to ...

The concepts of mythology and history, as we understand them today, are relatively recent developments. Less than 200 years ago, these words did not exist in their current form.

Iapetus, a moon of Saturn, has baffled astronomers since the early days of telescopic observation. It seemed to vanish and reappear without explanation, earning it a mythical status in early ...

Age of Mythology: Retold's new Immortal Pillars expansion is well worth grabbing, as it expands an already-impressive remake with new powers and units.

The Immortal Pillars DLC for Age of Mythology Retold is out right now. If you already own the Premium Edition of the game, it'll be yours at no extra cost, but for those with the base version it ...

Age of Mythology: Retold - Immortal Pillars expansion trailer. Watch on YouTube Then, sometime this "spring", PlayStation 5 owners can get their hands on Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition.

Since Iapetus was the forefather of humanity in Greek mythology, this provides even more reason for associating him with Noah’s son Japheth, the forefather of the Greeks. Another of Uranus’ sons was ...

From Apollo to Zeus, the 12 Olympian gods and goddesses are the most powerful deities in the pantheon of ancient Greek mythology and religion. The Greek gods — and the Roman gods they inspired — ...

On October 25, 1671, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered a new moon at Saturn! ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com Iapetus was the second moon anyone had ever found ...

Saturn has tidally locked Iapetus. The moon is named Iapetus after the Greek god Iapetus, who is a son of Uranus and Gaia, a brother to Kronus, and the father of Atlas and Prometheus.

In classic Greek mythology, Prometheus, son of the Titan Iapetus and god of forethought and crafty counsel, was entrusted (alongside Athena) with the moulding of mankind out of mud and wind.

Atlas was one of the Titans in Greek mythology, son of Iapetus and the Oceanid Clymene, and brother of Prometheus. After the war against the Olympian gods, Zeus condemned him to hold up the vault of ...