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Saturn: The Latest Discoveries
Saturn, sixth planet from the sun, is the second largest planet in our solar system.
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The next mission to Titan could get a bird's-eye view of the Saturn moon, sending a balloon or blimp cruising through its skies for months.
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has snapped some of the best-ever pictures of the Saturn moon Rhea, yielding clues about the satellite's recent tectonic rumblings.
How to best observe the major planets of our Solar System. Some have worlds of their own.
A giant hydrocarbon lake on Saturn's moon Titan is mirror-flat and surprisingly shallow, with average depths comparable to that of a backyard swimming pool, according to a new study.
A massive ridge nearly encircling Saturn's moon Iapetus is likely the remains of a mini moon destroyed by Iapetus' gravity long ago, a new study suggests.
For the first time, scientists now have solid evidence for an ice volcano on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, according to a new study.
Complex molecules similar to the building blocks of life on Earth may form commonly on the Saturn moon Titan, a new study suggests.
Saturn's famous rings are the last remaining shreds of a giant moon torn apart by the planet long ago, a new study suggests.
Scientists haven't found ET, but the discovery of a microbe that can thrive on arsenic should greatly broaden the search for life beyond Earth, according to experts.
The announcement of a NASA press conference slated for tomorrow (Dec. 2) has set the Internet abuzz with rumors that extraterrestrial life has been discovered.
The web of warm fissures feeding the ice geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus is more extensive and complicated than scientists had imagined, new research has found.
Saturn's second-largest moon, Rhea, has a wispy atmosphere composed of oxygen and carbon dioxide, study finds. NASA's Cassini spacecraft detected Rhea's atmosphere during a flyby.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft awakened today (Nov. 24) after slumbering for three weeks due to a computer glitch, agency officials announced.
NASA is preparing to revive the dormant Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn.
Titan's dense atmosphere, cold temperature, and significant gravity lets methane cycle as a solid, a liquid, and a gas; just as water does here on Earth.
First Flight for NASA's New Moon Rocket
Saturn is a changeable world that pumps out surprisingly variable amounts of heat from year to year and season to season, a new study has found.
Saturn is a changeable world that pumps out surprisingly variable amounts of heat from year to year and season to season, a new study has found.
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