Saturn’s aurora acts as a localized energy source that drives winds and currents in a stable feedback system, producing the ...

Saturn’s northern lights heat one side of the planet’s upper atmosphere and drive winds that mimic changes in its spin.

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have identified the mechanism behind one of planetary science’s most persistent puzzles: why Saturn’s measured rotation rate appears to shift by ...

How do Saturn’s northern lights drive the planet’s atmospheric winds? This conundrum has baffled scientists for decades, but now a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Space ...

Researchers at Northumbria University have used the most powerful space telescope ever built to answer one of the longest-standing puzzles in planetary science—why does Saturn appear to spin at a ...

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Saturn’s magnetic shield does not sit where many scientists would expect. After combing through years of data from the ...