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Saturn: The Latest Discoveries

Saturn is Sending us Mixed Signals

Saturn, sixth planet from the sun, is the second largest planet in our solar system.

The insides of Saturn's largest moon Titan are arranged like a slushy mix of rock and ice, the Cassini probe has found.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured images of lightning on Saturn that allowed scientists to create the first movie that shows lightning flashing on another planet.
Auroras of Saturn captured by Hubble. Amazing views from the Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and the Spitzer Space Telescope. Listening for Phoenix on Mars and Buzz Aldrin's exit from Dancing with Stars.
Saturn ice moon Enceladus creates ripples and bubbles in plasma surrounding giant planet.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured images of lightning on Saturn. The images have allowed scientists to create the first movie showing lightning flashing on another planet.
Cassini double flyby of Saturn moons Titan and Dione yields new images, data.
If life evolved on Saturn's moon Titan, it would likely involve chemicals that are noxious and disgusting to humans.
Saturn's moon Prometheus is showing a new side of itself in recent pictures from the Cassini probe.
Cassini spacecraft will help scientists determine the age and mass of Saturn's rings.
A lucky cosmic alignment will allow NASA's Cassini spacecraft to swing up close to two of Saturn's moons back-to-back this week.
A Pac-Man-shaped pattern shows up on the surface of Saturn's moon Mimas in new temperature maps.
Saturn's giant moon Titan is so cold that water is frozen as hard as granite, but methane is a liquid. Scientists wonder whether there could also be life.
Saturn arrives at opposition to the sun on the American evening of Sunday, March 21, making for great viewing.
Six years of Cassini observations shed light on Saturn's rings, magnetic shield.
Saturn will be in opposition on Monday March 22 and visible all night.
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is about to welcome a robotic visitor in the form of NASA’s New Horizons probe on Wednesday.
Since last summer, the dominant evening planet was Jupiter, but now Venus has emerged.
Cassini checks out Mimas, Mars Express takes a look at Phobos, Spirit is stuck in the sand and will have to ride out the Martian winter and Chandra shows us a supernova from the Andromeda galaxy.