America was still thumbing T9 messages on clamshell handsets, and every mall kiosk rang with the satisfying snap of plastic ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly imaged its first exoplanet — a young, Saturn-sized gas giant orbiting a star 110 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...

Saturn’s moon Titan has always stood out among the celestial bodies in our solar system. It is the only moon with a thick, ...

A strange new phenomenon discovered on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, has left scientists scratching their heads. Research published in The Planetary Science Journal reveals a deeper layer of mystery ...

The puzzling behavior of Titan's atmosphere has been revealed. The team has shown that the thick, hazy atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon doesn't spin in line with its surface, but instead ...

The Cassini spacecraft that orbited Saturn in 2004-2017 found the planet’s rings to have very little dirt. This was unusual — and the start of a mystery about the rings’ age April 10, 2025 e ...

Like a spinning top, the orientation of Saturn’s axis and the equatorial rings remain relatively fixed in space. So, twice per orbit, the rings are edge-on to the Sun and produce only a slender ...

Why does the Earth spin? Sara H., age 5, New Paltz, New York A globe was the first thing I ever bought with my own money. I was maybe 5 years old, and I was really excited to take it home. As I ...

Jupiter and Saturn spin quite a bit faster than Earth, taking only about 10 hours to rotate. Saturn’s spin is a little bit tilted, so we get to see changing views of its rings over time. The Cassini ...

An aurora forms on the South Pole of Saturn caused in part by the planet’s magnetosphere. The magnetic pole axis and spin axis on Saturn are aligned. NASA, ESA, J. Clarke (Boston ...