It was the first ring system ever found around a moon. Saturn's moon Rhea is named after the Greek goddess Rhea, who is considered the "mother of the gods," including Zeus, in Greek mythology.

While traveling the Greek world in the 2nd century CE, the geographer Pausanias visited the statue of Zeus at Olympia. The ...

The north polar hood can be seen on Titan appearing as a detached layer at the top of the moon on the top right. This view looks toward the Saturn-facing side of the smaller Rhea. [Read the Full ...

Like Tethys and Dione, Rhea is also tidally locked in phase with its parent, meaning that one side of the moon always faces Saturn. For centuries after its discovery, Rhea remained merely a tiny ...

Initially named "Saturn V," the moon was later renamed in 1847 to Rhea, the goddess wife of Cronos in Greek mythology. Cronos, in Roman mythology, was known as Saturn. Rhea has an oxygen ...

Astrophysicists have gained new insights into the chemical composition of the surface layer of Rhea, the second largest moon of Saturn, by analysing ultraviolet images. One of these images ...

A mystery on Saturn’s moon Rhea may have finally been solved. When NASA’s Cassini spacecraft flew past the planet’s second-largest moon before the end of its mission in 2017, it spotted a ...

Until this week Saturn's small moon Rhea was the only known solid space object thought to have a ring. (Other known ringed bodies, such as Saturn, are mainly gaseous.) But a new study of optical ...