With astral influences and layers of vocals, Enya's 'Shepherd Moons' album turned the tide and swept audiences along with a New Age classic.
35 months ago

It was November 4, 1992, when Enya released her third studio album, Shepherd Moons. It was the artist's first full-length following the...
35 months ago

This ring is made up of carefully herded dust and ice particles, tended by the team effort of two moons. These shepherd-moons keep a watchful eye on the ring...
109 months ago

Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft are helping to explain how Atlas, Daphnis, Epimetheus, Pan and Pandora are distinctive among Saturn's...
66 months ago

A study showing that Saturn's F ring and its shepherd satellites are natural by-products of the final stage of formation of Saturn's satellites.
109 months ago

Some moons control the structure of nearby rings via gravitational “tugs.” The cumulative effect of the moon's tugs on the ring particles can keep the rings'...
114 months ago

An international team of planetary scientists led by astronomers at AOP have found an asteroid trailing behind Mars with a composition very...
47 months ago

On the outskirts of the solar system, Uranus is accompanied by at least 27 moons. We explore these strange tilted moons in more detail.
17 months ago

This image from NASA's Cassini orbiter shows why Daphnis and Pan are known as "shepherd moons": The gravitational influence of those tiny...
148 months ago

Prometheus and Pandora, far from behaving as shepherds, actually act to stir up the motions of particles in most of the region near the F ring.
123 months ago