On Dec. 23, 1672, Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered Rhea, Saturn’s second-largest moon. Rhea is made up of rock ...

A new NASA study of data from its old Cassini mission to Saturn suggests that giant moon Titan may not have a global ocean — ...

JWST observations of Saturn's atmosphere revealed unprecedented details of its aurora and upper atmosphere, including previously unseen, complex structures. In the ionosphere (1100 km altitude), dark, ...

The secret has been hiding in plain view for 40 years. But it took the insight of a veteran astronomer to pull it all together within a year, using observations of Saturn from NASA’s Hubble Space ...

The Cassini probe took its final orbits, referred to as the Grand Finale Orbits (GFOs), in 2017, before launching itself into ...

Saturn’s famous rings don’t just give the planet its distinctive look — they also affect its weather. New research using the Hubble Space Telescope shows that the icy rings actually heat up Saturn’s ...

A recent study published in Science Advances uses radio astronomy to examine how megastorms on the planet Saturn can affect the planet’s atmosphere long after the storms have dissipated, with these ...

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The rings that make Saturn such a spectacle are probably heating its atmosphere and making it glow at ultraviolet wavelengths. Researchers detected an excess of ultraviolet emission in Saturn’s ...

Two decades of scrutinizing Saturn are finally paying off, as scientists have discovered a wave pattern, or oscillation, in Saturn’s atmosphere only visible from Earth every 15 years. The discovery of ...

Astronomers make huge discovery under Saturn’s moon that could change search for alien life - NASA’s planned Dragonfly ...