For decades, Saturn’s upper atmosphere has been one of the solar system’s great enigmas. Even the Cassini spacecraft, which ...

Never-before-seen “dark beads” and other unique structures were observed in the atmosphere above the north pole of Saturn — ...

Fresh observations from the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) — the most detailed yet of the planet's upper atmosphere — ...

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

Something strange is stirring in Saturn’s skies. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted something entirely new in Saturn’s atmosphere: a string of dark, bead-like features high ...

Saturn, the jewel of the solar system, has returned to the night sky. The ringed planet rises in the east just as the sun ...

Plus: Why are hurricanes so powerful? Are winds on other planets like they are on Earth? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in ...

Imagery of Saturn captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is superimposed over an image captured by Hubble. "Yellows represent bright and warm parts of Saturn’s atmosphere, while the purple areas ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers observed auroras warming the rogue planet’s upper atmosphere.

More than 50 times further from the Sun than Earth, the tiny dwarf planet Makemake is one of the last places you'd expect to ...

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet ...