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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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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.
Pluto was originally considered the ninth planet in Earth’s solar system, but was recently classified as a dwarf planet. Pluto’s orbit takes it through the Kuiper Belt.
The planet Neptune, eighth planet from the Sun in Earth’s solar system, is the fourth largest planet in diameter and third largest in mass. Neptune was named after the Roman God of the seas.
Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun, was named after the Roman God Saturn. The planet Saturn is a gas giant and one of the Jovian planets.
Jupiter, fifth planet from the sun in Earth’s solar system, is sometimes referred to as a Jovian planet. 63 moons orbit the gas giant Jupiter, comprised of mostly hydrogen.
It's been 30 years since NASA's two Voyager spacecraft first visited Saturn, but the probes' discoveries are still guiding studies of the ringed planet today.
Life on Earth may have originated high up in the atmosphere rather than in the surface waters of oceans or pools, a new study suggests.
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