Saturn
Saturn adds 128 new moons to its list, totaling 274 moons
Saturn still reigns supreme as moon king with 128 new moons.
Enceladus’s plume strength may be due to the movement of tiger-stripe faults
Enceladus spills its guts through strike–slip motion.
Unexpected: Astronomers have discovered methane emission on a brown dwarf
An Aurora on an isolated world.
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may not host life
Titan may not have enough amino acids for life to emerge.
Saturn’s tiny moon harbors a global ocean beneath its icy shell
One of Saturn's smallest moons, lies a secret.
Life on a Saturn moon? Study finds key ingredient for biological building blocks
A joint Harvard-NASA study.
Saturn’s Ring Spokes: A Hubble Telescope Image
This is a photo of Saturn captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on October 22, 2023. The planet was about 1365 million kilometers...
Saturn’s icy moon may hold the building blocks of life
Enceladus’ ice plumes may hold the building blocks of life.
Webb identified methane and water vapor in exoplanets’ atmosphere
Scientists can now start to perform an “apples-to-apples” comparison.
Exploring the origins of Saturn’s rings and icy Moons
Saturn’s rings could have evolved from the debris of two progenitor icy moons.
The subsurface ocean of Saturn’s moon- Enceladus, contains a key building block for life
Key building block for life found at Saturn's moon Enceladus.
Webb maps surprisingly large plume jetting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus
A water vapour plume from Saturn’s moon Enceladus spanning more than 9600 kilometres — long enough to stretch across the Eurasian continent from Ireland...
First observation: Scientists discovered a cyclone on the north pole of Uranus
It’s a much more dynamic world than you might think.
Study explains the mystery of ‘smooth terrains’ on icy moons circling Jupiter and Saturn
Icy moonquakes: Surface shaking could trigger landslides.
NASA instruments could reveal chemistry leading to life on Titan
This mission designed to help scientists hone in on the chemistry at work on Titan.
New images show the start of a new spoke season at Saturn
We will have longer dedicated time to study Saturn’s spokes this season, say scientists.
Scientists have discovered a new ring system in our Solar System
The ring system orbits much further out than is typical for other ring systems.
12 new moons discovered orbiting Jupiter
The discovery of a dozen new moons for Jupiter makes the king of planets the king of moons, too.
Saturn’s smallest moon could support an internal liquid ocean
Saturn’s smallest, innermost moon could generate the right amount of heat to support a liquid internal ocean.
What it would take to discover life on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus?
Enceladus is a hot candidate for potentially harboring alien life.
Saturn’s rings and tilt could be the product of an ancient, missing moon
A “grazing encounter” may have smashed the moon to bits to form Saturn’s rings, a new study suggests.
NASA shares the image of the smallest and innermost of Saturn’s major moons
The Cassini spacecraft made several close approaches and provided detailed images of Mimas.
Modeling landscape formation on Titan revealed Earth-like alien world
Seasonal, active sediment transport shapes the modern landscapes of Titan.
Scientists observed another mechanism driving Saturn’s Auroras
The study is based on observations made with the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island.
Astronomers published final maps of Titan’s liquid methane rivers and tributaries
Titan’s river maps may advise Dragonfly’s sedimental journey.