Moving in some high-risk pathways between Saturn and its inner rings, it successfully got closer to the planet to fulfil its ...
Bands of clouds look like they were painted on the planet in the new photo, which shows Saturn's north pole dominated by the planet's hexagonal jet stream surrounding the "hurricane-like storm" at ...
Planets don't get much more iconic than Saturn. But if you managed to see it through a backyard telescope right now, you wouldn't see its rings.
There were theories, however, that Saturn’s rings were transient and could disappear within 50-to-200 million years, while ...
As we reach the north pole, we'll notice a slight problem with our plan to land on the surface below. There is no surface below. Saturn's made almost entirely of hydrogen and helium gas ...
By Sage Rohrbach A photo of five of Saturn’s moons, captured by the Cassani spacecraft. The moons visible are Janus, Pandora, Enceladus, Rhea, and Mimas. Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science ...
A theory involving a "mushy zone" of ice along the moon’s fissures could explain the enormous plumes erupting from its south pole. Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has long been considered a ...
Saturn has 274 moons recognized by the International ... A large trench crosses the moon, running diagonally from its north to south pole and spanning three-quarters of the satellite's circumference.
Saturn is orbited by 146 moons ... ice and water vapor hundreds of kilometers into space from its south pole. NASA's Cassini spacecraft identified these jets in 2005, before going on to sample ...