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Saturn V rocket launches from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on May 14, 1973, carrying Skylab 1 into orbit.
Saturn V: The mighty U.S. moon rocket

By Robert Lea Published

Reference The Saturn V rocket powered the Apollo missions, changing the course of spaceflight forever. Here we explore this impressive rocket in more detail.

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The ringed planet Saturn still puzzles astronomers.
Swirling winds of Saturn trigger never-before-seen auroras

By Samantha Mathewson Published

Some of Saturn’s auroras are triggered by swirling winds within the planet’s own atmosphere, a completely new type of aurora not seen on any other planet before, new research suggests.

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An artist's depiction of NASA's Dragonfly mission on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan.
Soar over the desert in footage from drone practicing for mission to Saturn's strangest moon

By Elizabeth Howell Published

The team tested images and sensors ahead of flying to the moon of Saturn.

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Saturn's moon Mimas bears an uncanny resemblance to the Death Star in Star Wars.
Saturn's 'Death Star' moon could have a secret underground ocean

By Ben Turner Published

Scientists have found "compelling evidence" that Saturn's "Death Star" moon is hiding an ocean just beneath its surface, furthering the search for possible life in our solar system.

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This false-colored image, captured by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, shows rings around a young star named HD163296 (not the sun).
The sun used to have rings like Saturn

By Yasemin Saplakoglu Published

Before Earth and the other planets in our solar system existed, the sun may have been surrounded by giant rings of dust similar to Saturn's, according to a new study.

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An illustration depicts Titan's dense yellowish atmosphere above a river of methane on the moon surface
Moon-in-a-jar recreates the hazy atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon

By Nicoletta Lanese Published

A new experiment recreated Titan in small glass cylinders.

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The rings of Saturn, seen here in an archival photo from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, may hold clues into the planet's soupy, mushy core, scientists say.
Saturn's rippling rings point to massive, soupy core hidden inside

By Tereza Pultarova Published

Scientists used Saturn's famous rings as a seismograph to study processes in the planet's interior. The researchers found its core is like a soup consisting of rocks, ices and metallic fluids.

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Look up! Saturn shines bright, shows off rings as it reaches opposition.

By Doris Elin Urrutia Published

Starting Monday (Aug. 2), you can find Saturn shining in the sky as part of a celestial phenomenon called opposition.

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An image of Saturn's moon Enceladus, taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Methane in plume of Saturn's moon Enceladus could be sign of alien life, study suggests

By Mike Wall Published

The methane wafting from Enceladus may be a sign that life teems in the Saturn moon's subsurface sea, a new study reports.

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NASA envisions a potential future mission could bring a sample from Saturn's moon Titan, powering its return flight with hydrocarbons from the moon's surface methane lakes.
Scientists ponder how to get samples from Saturn's weird moon Titan

By Tereza Pultarova Published

A concept of a sample-return mission to Saturn's moon Titan envisions using local lakes of hydrocarbons as a source of fuel to power the trip home.

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