Staying closed, however, has caused financial strain, which led Dione’s team to set up a GoFundMe account on her behalf, one that Dione never imagined would take off the way it did.

A subsurface ocean lies deep within Saturn's moon Dione, according to new data from the Cassini mission to Saturn. Two other moons of Saturn, Titan and Enceladus, are already known to hide global ...

Dione is the fourth-largest moon of Saturn, with a diameter of 698 miles (1,123 kilometers). It is the 15th largest moon in the solar system. Dione orbits around Saturn once every 2.7 Earth-days ...

An international research team has discovered molecular oxygen ions (O 2 +) in the upper-most atmosphere of Dione, one of the 62 known moons orbiting the ringed planet. The research was made ...

If this hypothesis is correct, then the ocean on Dione would lie about 62 miles below its surface. It would be several miles deep and would surround the moon's rocky core.

Dione has a diameter of 1,122km, making it the fourth largest of Saturn's 62 moons. It has an icy exterior and a rocky interior. Cassini has detected a wispy oxygen atmosphere at the world, ...