Ghostly 'spokes' puff out from Saturn's ring'sMassive, bright clouds of tiny ice particles hover above the darkened rings of Saturn in an image captured by the Cassini spacecraft on 22 September 2009 around the time of Saturn's... — full story
Spitzer discovers an enormous ring around SaturnNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered an enormous ring around Saturn - by far the largest of the giant planet's many rings. The new belt lies at the far reaches of the Saturnian... — full story
Cassini reveals new ring quirks, shadows during Saturn equinoxNASA scientists are marvelling over the extent of ruffles and dust clouds revealed in the rings of Saturn during the planet's equinox last month. Scientists once thought the rings were... — full story
A team of international scientists led by Mirjam Langhans, from the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), will present first results of a global analysis of spatial patterns, occurrence and... — full story
Longest lightning storm on Saturn breaks Solar System recordA powerful lightning storm in Saturn's atmosphere that began in mid-January 2009 has become the Solar System's longest continuously observed thunderstorm. It broke the record duration... — full story
New transient radiation belt discovered at SaturnScientists using the Cassini spacecraft's Magnetospheric Imaging instrument (MIMI) have detected a new, temporary radiation belt at Saturn, located around the orbit of its moon Dione... — full story
Scientists have debated how many mass extinction events in Earth's history were triggered by a space body crashing into the planet's surface. Most agree that an asteroid collision 65... — full story
A new way of detecting how fast large gaseous planets are rotating suggests Saturn's day lasts 10 hours, 34 minutes and 13 seconds - over five minutes shorter than previous estimates... — full story
Data collected during two close flybys of Saturn's moon Enceladus by Cassini add more fuel to the fire about the icy world containing sub-surface liquid water... — full story
Further evidence about water ocean on EnceladusCassini has found further evidence to suggest that the Saturn's sixth largest moon Enceladus has a reservoir of water - perhaps an ocean - beneath its surface. A subsurface ocean could... — full story