February may be the shortest month of the year, but it is packed with celestial events, according to a new skywatching update from NASA.
If Titan formed from a merger, the researchers found, its eccentric orbit could destabilize smaller moons closer to Saturn, ...
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may have formed in a collision with another moon, and ...
Of the solar system’s planets, Saturn piques the human imagination with its signature rings and impressive moon count of 274. But compelling new research reignites theories of an ancient collision ...
Enceladus’s geysers power vast electromagnetic wave systems that redistribute energy throughout Saturn’s magnetosphere.
In a paper to be published in the Planetary Science Journal, scientists from SETI Institute, Southwest Research Institute, ...
Please join the Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology on Thursday, Feb. 26 at 11 a.m. for a talk by Ryan Maguire. Launched in 1997, the Cassini spacecraft orbited the ringed planet Saturn for ...
Behind the serene, glowing beauty of Saturn’s rings lies a story of cosmic chaos. Once thought to be as old as the planets ...
Now researchers think they've solved the mystery of one of the longest star-dimming events ever recorded. The star, called ASASSN-24fw, may have disappeared behind a giant planet with an enormous ...
Recent research suggests that Saturn's bright rings and its largest moon, Titan, may have both originated in collisions among its moons. While Cassini's 13-year mission expanded our understanding of ...
One of the longest stellar dimming events ever observed was likely caused by the gigantic saucer-like rings of either an unseen brown dwarf or "super-Jupiter" blocking its host star's light, ...
Astronomers have captured some of the most detailed images of debris discs from fully formed, ‘teenage’ planetary systems.