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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.

Missing asteroids may be the handiwork of rampaging giant planets.
Four of Saturn's many moons will cross the ringed planet's face Tuesday morning.
A look and the proposed joint NASA-ESA mission to send a fleet of spacecraft to Saturn and its shrouded moon Titan.
NASA and Europe are pushing ahead with ambitious new missions to Jupiter and Saturn.
This month you'll have an opportunity to see all five naked-eye planets.
New images of Titan reveal the extent of methane lakes.
Scientists push for a seven-year extension of the Cassini mission to Saturn.
New pictures of Saturn released Tuesday reveal the ringed planet in all its splendor.
Cassini's mission continues to uncover secrets of the ringed planet.
Big news from Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus: It's likely that a salty ocean sloshes around beneath the icy surface.
Mars' ultraviolet auroral lights have been mapped for the first time.
Astronomers looking at the spectacular supersonic plumes of gas and dust shooting off one of Saturn's moons say there are strong hints of liquid water, a key building block of life.
Computer simulations get up close to Jupiter's core.
Cassini spacecraft photographs new aurora at Saturn's pole.
Mission would use an orbiting spacecraft, a surface probe, and a hot air balloon.
Nine mementos are riding to Pluto aboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.
A simulation shows how thunderstorms create jet streams on giant planets.
New observations of Mars' moon Phobos show the object is more like a pile of rubble than a single solid body.