As a young upstart, the Huygens interplanetary probe will capture all the attention this week when it goes down in a blaze of glory through the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. In the ...

NASA Cassini spacecraft images of Saturn’s diaphanous G and E rings are yielding new clues about their structure and formation. A sequence of recent Cassini images, which has been made into a brief ...

NASA is studying several moons of Saturn and Jupiter that carry oceans of liquid water deep beneath their surfaces, where alien life could thrive. Another moon, previously assumed to be a barren ice ...

In a new paper published in the journal Science this week, the team suggests there may have been a sizable satellite dubbed Chrysalis orbiting the gas giant for several billion years, a tantalizing ...

Astronomers have uncovered additional evidence that one of Saturn’s smallest moons, Mimas, is hiding a global ocean beneath its icy surface. Building a stronger case for the presence of water — ...

As planets age, they typically become cooler and darker, but astronomers have long wondered why Saturn, one of the largest planets in the solar system, appears to be bucking the trend. Now, ...

Huge, hundred-year storms on our gas giant neighbors might reveal clues about the weather on far-off exoplanets, scientists have found. While we have known for a while that Jupiter's enormous, ...

The plain-looking Saturn moon Dione may have once had a geologically active subsurface ocean, new images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal. Images of Dione's 500-mile-long (800 kilometers) ...