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Gear up for Saturn’s annual show in the night sky! Starting Monday (Aug. 2), you can find Saturn shining in the sky as part of a celestial phenomenon called opposition....

When viewed through a telescope, Saturn is our solar system’s most glorious planet. But, to the eye, Saturn isn’t as noticeable as bright Jupiter. Luckily, we’re still less than a...

An unknown methane-producing process is likely at work in the hidden ocean beneath the icy shell of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, suggests a new study published in Nature Astronomy by scientists...

Saturn’s year, or 1 trip in its orbit around the sun, is equal to nearly 30 Earth-years. The tilt of Saturn’s axis is 26.7 degrees, fairly close to Earth’s 23.5...

New Johns Hopkins University simulations offer an intriguing look into Saturn’s interior, suggesting that a thick layer of helium rain influences the planet’s magnetic field. The models, published this week...

Titan, Saturn’s biggest moon, probably helped to cause the ringed planet to start tipping off-kilter long ago. Saturn is tilted with respect to its orbit around the Sun, by a...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers a view of changes in Saturn’s vast and turbulent atmosphere as the planet’s northern hemisphere summer transitions to fall as shown in this...

Enceladus, Saturn’s mysterious moon that could support life, could be more geologically active than previously thought, according to a new study. The research, published in the scientific journal Icarus, looked...

Just five weeks after beaming home images of a giant space ravioli, NASA’s Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft has shown us a «UFO.» Well, sort of. On Tuesday (April 12), Cassini snapped...

Saturn and Jupiter will appear to almost kiss this winter solstice, although not because of some cosmic mistletoe hanging overhead. Rather, the two gas giants will look as though they’re...