The new audio files come from data collected from the Cassini spacecraft when it dove in between Saturn and its mysterious rings. Cassini–Huygens is the name of an unmanned spacecraft sent to the ...

Plasma waves found traveling between Saturn, its rings, and its moon Enceladus have been turned into sound by NASA researchers. The waves were detected by the Cassini space probe during its final ...

Saturn's rings are falling in on the planet as icy rain, according to researchers. Scientists say this is occurring due to the planet's intense gravity. Dr. James O’Donoghue, from the Japan Aerospace ...

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Saturn’s icy rings are not just aesthetically wondrous marvels. One of them also records a beautiful planetary soundtrack. The planet’s interior, concealed beneath a shroud of mostly hydrogen gas, ...

Astronomers had long assumed that Saturn's distinctive rings formed around the same time as the planet some 4.5 billion years ago in the earliest days of our Solar System. That assumption received a ...

Artist conception of 126 planets in the latest TESS-Keck Survey catalog is based on data including planet radius, mass, density, and temperature. Question marks represent planets requiring more data ...