The rings of Saturn glide so tranquilly when watched through a telescope, that it is easy to forget the planet sits in a ...

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Unlike rocky planets where asteroid impacts leave visible craters, gas giants like Saturn have outer layers of hydrogen and ...

Astronomers investigate a potential impact on Saturn after a bright flash was caught on camera. NASA image may show first ...

The coming week will see the gas giant Saturn return to the Northern Hemisphere's late night sky, after spending the last few ...

A bright flash on Saturn was captured by NASA's Mario Rana on July 5, 2025. This marks the first time we've ever seen an ...

Cassini and the James Webb Space Telescope both found that much of the material for Saturn's E ring—a diffuse ring outside the bright, main rings—comes from cryovolcanoes on Enceladus, which ...

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Felton Davis offered thousands of strangers a close-up view of the Moon and planets orbiting New York City. Now he’s passing ...

A stronomers at the Planetary Virtual Observatory and Laboratory (PVOL) are appealing for help, after an image taken by NASA's Mario Rana appears to show an object slamming into Saturn.

Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...

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