Saturn’s rings are a celestial marvel that have long fascinated astronomers and casual stargazers alike. Visible from Earth through modest telescopes, these shimmering halos are not only captivating ...
Scientists from NASA and Chalmers University have discovered that incompatible substances can mix on Titan’s icy surface, ...
With its striking rings and tilted axis, Saturn is the showiest planet in the solar system. Now, scientists say they have a new theory as to how the gas giant got its signature look.The planet’s rings ...
Saturn's icy medium-size moons were born when a few much bigger satellites collided to form the ringed planet's huge moon Titan, a new study suggests. The Saturn system started out with a family of ...
Where did life on Earth come from? There are several theories as to what might have happened. Maybe comets came bearing organic material, or life was transported from another planet such as Mars, or ...
Researchers have discovered a secondary aurora sparkling on Saturn and also started to unravel the mechanisms that drive the process. Their results show that Saturn's secondary aurora is much more ...
The Saturn System has been studied in detail by the Cassini-Huygens Mission. A major thrust of those investigations has been to understand how Saturn formed and evolved and to place Saturn in the ...