Figuring out the day length of Earth is more complicated than you might imagine. While on average a day is 24 hours long, ...

New research reveals more about why Saturn's large moon tilts, a puzzle that has intrigued scientists for decades.

In three months, Saturn's iconic, icy rings will appear to disappear, giving you a preview of what the planet could look like 100 million to 300 million years from now.. On March 23, an optical ...

Saturn’s rings are being pulled into the planet by its gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles under the influence of Saturn’s magnetic field, confirming the findings made by Voyager 1 & 2 ...

Saturn's gravity well is deep, and its magnetic field is strong; charged particles of ice fall into the planet along magnetic field lines. Infall rates favor younger rings, ...

Discover interesting facts about Saturn, its rings and whether it could contain extraterrestrial life. ... comets and pieces of moons shattered into bits under the force of Saturn's gravity.

Gravitational assists are an emblematic example of why space travel is hard —it is exactly rocket science, after all. Gravity ...

Ingredients for life discovered on Saturn moon; astronauts perform spacewalk 05:54. Saturn's rings will seemingly disappear from view in 2025, a phenomenon caused by the planet's rotation on an axis.

Chrysalis eventually came so close to Saturn that the planet’s gravity tore it apart, with a portion of it settling into a ring. Given Titan’s current migration rate, that would have happened between ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far beyond any other planet in our solar system.

Saturn's characteristic rings are made of chunks of ice and rock, thought to have fallen into orbit around the planet after larger cosmic bodies were torn apart by Saturn's gravity.