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Earth crosses through Saturn’s “ring plane,” making the gas giant’s most iconic feature become nearly invisible ...
It's not every day that a prominent feature of our solar system disappears, but that's precisely what will happen with Saturn ...
The race between Jupiter and Saturn for the most moons in the Solar System may have just finally come screeching to a halt.
What kind of mission would be best suited to sample the plumes of Saturn's ocean world, Enceladus, to determine if this ...
The iconic rings of Saturn have disappeared but don’t worry, they haven’t gone anywhere. This week, a rare cosmic event ...
A collision of such size could explain the small moons that orbit Saturn. Here's what to know about Saturn's newly-discovered moons. The new moons are only a few kilometers across in size (one ...
While some travel within gaps in Saturn's rings and clear a path through the debris, others orbit farther out. The ringed giant's moons also vary considerably in size. The largest, Titan ...
“We tend to call it planning,” he says. The project began, as many space missions do, with a simple idea: Send a spacecraft to orbit Saturn—not just to zoom past quickly, but to stick around ...
Irregular moons typically orbit in big ovals further away from planets, and at a range of angles. Saturn has 24 regular moons and 250 irregular moons. Studying these moons can tell us about how ...
The group of scientists believes that around the time Saturn was forming some four billion years ago, it pulled a few moderately large moons into its orbit. Over the preceding millennia ...