Cassini scientists have discovered an unexpected menagerie of clouds lurking in the depths of Saturn’s complicated atmosphere. “Unlike the hazy, broad, global bands of clouds regularly seen in ...

Saturn’s beautiful rings and many moons are an impressive sight to view through a telescope. But as NASA’s Voyager and then Cassini spacecraft discovered, as they rocketed close to the planet, Saturn ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. When NASA’s Saturn V rocket launched humans to the moon a half ...

ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has teamed up with NASA’s Cassini spacecraft to study a rare storm in the atmosphere of the planet Saturn in more detail than has ever been possible before. The new ...

New JWST observations of Saturn reveal bizarre bead-like auroras and a lopsided star-shaped pattern in the atmosphere.

The Saturn V moon rocket launched in 1967 as part of the Apollo 4 mission. Photo: NASA On November 9, 1967, a 363-foot-tall (111-meter) Saturn V rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, ...

Enceladus, the sixth largest of Saturn's moons, is known for spraying out tiny icy silica particles -- so many of them that the particles are a key component of the second outermost ring around Saturn ...

Saturn’s moon Enceladus is shrouded in a thick layer of snow. In some places, the downy stuff is 700 meters deep, new research suggests. “It’s like Buffalo, but worse,” says planetary scientist Emily ...

Why it matters: Astronomers are gradually discovering that liquid water oceans are more common in the solar system than previously believed. New methods of examining old data have uncovered a ...

Could a spaceship actually travel to Saturn during the time it takes to earn a master’s degree? Scientists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) think so, and the solution is embedded in a ...