Just after sunset on the evening of December 21, 2020, Jupiter and Saturn will appear closer together in Earth’s night sky than they have been…
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This mosaic of Saturn’s moon Mimas showing its cratered surface was created from images taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute A new…
New work led by Carnegie’s Matt Clement reveals the likely original locations of Saturn and Jupiter. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Where were Jupiter and Saturn…
Catherine Neish is counting the days until her space launch. While the Western planetary geologist isn’t space-suiting up for her own interstellar voyage, she is…
The smaller storms on Saturn interact with the larger system and as a result effectively pinch the eastern jet and confine it to the top…
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/LPG/CNRS/University of Nantes/Space Science Institute A global infrared mosaic of Saturn’s moon Enceladus created using a complete dataset from the Cassini spacecraft…
In these detailed infrared images of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus, reddish areas indicate fresh ice that has been deposited on the surface. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of…
High-resolution images of Saturn’s Hexagon obtained by the Cassini spacecraft. Credit: UPV/EHU High-resolution images obtained by the Cassini spacecraft were used for this purpose by…
This false-color composite image shows auroras (depicted in green) above the cloud tops of Saturn’s south pole. The 65 observations used here were captured by…
Optical image of Titan taken by NASA Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Planetary scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) revealed the secrets…
Using new geochemical models, SwRI scientists found that CO2 in Enceladus’ ocean may be controlled by chemical reactions at the seafloor. Integrating this finding with…
First seen by the Cassini mission to Saturn, Enceladus’ “tiger stripes” are like nothing else known in our Solar System. Credit: NASA, ESA, JPL, SSI,…
The colorful globe of Titan passes in front of Saturn and its rings in this true-color snapshot from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in 2011. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space…
This is an artist’s conception of the 20 newly discovered moons orbiting Saturn. These discoveries bring the planet’s total moon count to 82, surpassing Jupiter…
A prototype of the transforming robot Shapeshifter is tested in the robotics yard at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Shapeshifter is made of smaller robots that…
The latest view of Saturn from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures exquisite details of the ring system — which looks like a phonograph record with…
This artist’s concept of a lake at the north pole of Saturn’s moon Titan illustrates raised rims and rampartlike features such as those seen by…
This graphic shows the ring moons inspected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in super-close flybys. The rings and moons depicted are not to scale. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech…
An artist’s impression of how Saturn may look in the next hundred million years. The innermost rings disappear as they rain onto the planet first,…