Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space telescope have taken a series of spectacular images featuring the fluttering auroras at the north pole of Saturn. The observations were taken in ultraviolet ...

Previously undetected organic compounds have been found in ice ejected into space from Enceladus, making the satellite a ...

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Sunday evening (Oct. 5) will bring us a fine opportunity to make a positive identification of what many consider to be the most beautiful of all telescopic objects, the ringed planet Saturn ... at ...

Saturn pumps into space varying amounts of heat based on its seasons, which drives planet-wide storms, data from NASA's Cassini mission has revealed. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

How far it is from the sun: 886 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers), on average How big it is: 72,400 miles (116,500 km) across, or almost 10 times the size of Earth. How many moons it has: At ...

Enceladus has long been considered a prime candidate in the search for life beyond Earth because of its hidden ocean and ...

"Complex chemical reactions" discovered in fresh ice grains from Saturn’s moon Enceladus renews hopes that it may harbor life ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured a new image of Saturn. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / M. Tiscareno (SETI Institute) / M. Hedman (University of Idaho) / M. El Moutadmid (Cornell University) ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Saturn's chilly north pole boasts a hot spot of compressed air, a surprising discovery that could shed light on other planets within our own solar system and beyond, researchers ...

Scientists don’t agree on when the planet’s iconic rings formed—or even how they came to be. But the theories have one thing in common: violence. When the Cassini spacecraft took a 2013 image from ...