Saturn’s icy rings could be much older than they appear due to their resistance to pollution from impacts with rocky debris.
Hyodo et al. suggest that...
The gas giant Saturn is known for its iconic ring system. However, its B ring can have splotches and streaks of darker or lighter material, known as spokes,...
Saturn’s rings could have evolved from the debris of two progenitor icy moons that collided and shattered a few hundred million years ago; debris that...
This new image of Saturn, taken with the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope on June 25, 2023, serves as...
Phosphorus has not previously been detected in oceans beyond those on Earth and this discovery provides a promising step forward in our understanding of...
As Enceladus orbits rapidly around Saturn with a period of only 1.37 Earth days, the ejected water vapor is spread along and around its orbit, forming...
Saturn’s ring system may well have formed when dinosaurs were still walking on the Earth, and will last only another few hundred million years at most,...
The most feasible explanation is that icy ring particles raining down onto Saturn’s atmosphere cause this heating, according to a team of astronomers...
Saturn is known for its iconic, pristine rings. However, the main B ring can have splotches and streaks of darker or lighter material, known as spokes,...
Planetary rings are often speculated as being a relatively common attribute of giant planets, partly based on their prevalence within the Solar System....
NASA has released a stunning image captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of Saturn and its ring system.
Hubble captured this image of Saturn...
The famous ring system of Saturn may be much older than some planetary scientists think, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Astronomy.
NASA’s...
Saturn is so beautiful that astronomers cannot resist using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to take yearly snapshots of the gas giant when it is at...
Although NASA’s Cassini mission ended in 2017, science continues to flow from the data collected. In a series of papers in the journal Science, planetary...
Saturn’s main ring system is associated with a set of moons (Pan, Daphnis, Atlas, Pandora, and Epimetheus) that are either embedded within it, or interact...
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft observed Saturn’s ring system in unprecedented detail, and a team of planetary researchers from the University of California...
In the final phase of NASA’s Cassini mission, the spacecraft dived between Saturn and its innermost ring, at altitudes 1,616-2,423 miles (2,600-3,900...
