A fresh look at data collected by NASA's Cassini probe nearly two decades ago has revealed new, complex organic molecules on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus – pointing to tantalizing chemistry taking ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

NASA has shared a gorgeous image of Saturn captured recently by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Webb’s first near-infrared observations of the second largest planet in our solar system also ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...