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Want to See Saturn and Its Rings? — This Weekend Is Your Best Chance

It's like a seven-ring circus in the night sky.

By Kiona Smith
Science

Saturn's Moon Mimas May Be Way More Habitable Than We First Thought

The existence of another watery world in the outer solar system may offer clues to how such seas form.

By Shannon Hall and Knowable Magazine
Space

Lakes On Saturn’s Moon Titan May Be Sculpted By Waves of Literal Liquid Methane

A team of geologists and planetary scientists modeled the geometry of wave-battered shorelines on Earth, then compared them to the lakes and seas of Saturn’s moon Titan.

By Kiona Smith
Fuzzy

Look: Saturn’s rings reveal the planet’s “fuzzy” interior

By Robin Bea
stormy worlds

How the raging storms of Saturn and Jupiter form

Surface storms can tell us what's going on in the planets' interiors.

By Passant Rabie
Space

Webb Telescope Spies a Huge Water Plume Coming from Saturn’s Most Intriguing Moon

Behold a spectacular geyser plume from Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus.

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Space Anniversaries

50 Years Ago, NASA Sent an Ambitious Mission to Saturn — and To Interstellar Horizons

The Pioneer 11 probe would serve as a metaphorical blueprint for the Voyager missions.

By Jon Kelvey
Science

Saturn's rings were once a moon ripped apart by bizarre forces

Resonance with not-so-near Neptune destabilized the moon 100 million years ago.

By Charles Q. Choi
Space

Saturn's "Death Star" Moon Mimas May Actually Be Packed Full of Water

Still no sign of that exhaust port, though.

By Kiona Smith
don't go

Titan is drifting away from Saturn 100 times faster than predicted

The moon and its host planet don't have that much time left together.

By Passant Rabie
The right stuff

New study shows one of Saturn’s icy moons may be extremely habitable

Beneath Enceladus's frozen surface, the moon's ocean could contain phosphorus, a key ingredient for building cells.

By Kiona Smith
fit as a fiddle

Saturn's chaotic moon may be a lot younger than we thought

The bizarre world of Titan may not have formed that long ago.

By Passant Rabie
Space

The Aftermath of Saturn's Giant Storms Lasts for Centuries

Giant storms on the ringed planet can leave patches of ammonia trapped in the lower atmosphere for centuries, a recent study suggests.

By Kiona Smith
hidden elements

Saturn's moon Rhea has a mysterious material on its surface

By Passant Rabie
Handhelds

This Sega Saturn-Inspired Handheld Can Play Dreamcast Games

The Anbernic RG Arc is for the biggest Sega fans.

By Raymond Wong
Space

After Almost 8 Years, Saturn Is Entering Autumn — These New Webb Telescope Images Reveal Its Foliage

Imagine seven years of Halloween and pumpkin spice.

By Kiona Smith
Space

Look up! Mercury, Saturn, and Jupiter Will All Shine Bright This Month

Go outside and look up.

By Kiona Smith
Space

Saturn’s Weird Spokes Shine in This Hubble Image

Who’s more mysterious, Santa or Saturn?

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Space

The Salty Belly Of A Saturn Moon May Contain Building Blocks Of Life

Enceladus once gave NASA a taste of its subsurface ocean.

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Space

Saturn's Rings Are Only 100 Million Years Old — Which is About How Long They Have Left

One of the biggest “jewels of the Solar System” is on borrowed time.

By Gareth Dorrian and The Conversation
Science

How a NASA Drone Could Find Traces of Life on Saturn’s Weirdest Moon

Titan, the second largest moon in our Solar System, is the only known moon with an atmosphere.

By Nancy Atkinson and Universe Today
space

An Upcoming NASA Mission to Saturn’s Largest Moon Could Find Chemicals Key to Alien Life

The Dragonfly quadcopter's future landing site on Titan may once have been a warm oasis of liquid water amid the moon's icy hydrocarbon landscape.

By Kiona Smith
Science

NASA releases “extraordinary” Webb Telescope images of Saturn's most intriguing moon

The images show clouds in the atmosphere of Titan, a moon that looks eerily like early Earth.

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Science

You need to see Saturn at its closest and brightest this week

The planet will be in opposition, putting its rings and planet-sized moon Titan front and center.

By Joseph Malcomson
Science

The Webb Telescope might confirm if one of Saturn’s moons has ingredients for life

"Titan is very good at making organic molecules."

By Kiona Smith
Mimas touch

Look: Saturn's "Death Star" moon might have an ocean beneath its surface

It could redefine what it means to be an ocean world.

By Jennifer Walter
Science

Sending a tiny telescope past Saturn may solve mysteries of the universe

The ability to peer further into the darkness could reveal more than ever.

By Michael Zemcov
Inverse Daily

Scientists can hear Saturn roar in space — and you can listen, too

Plus: A possible connection between diet and cancer

By Claire Cameron
Ring ring

40 years ago, Voyager 2 paved the way to Titan

It's the 4th anniversary of the Voyager 2 flyby of Saturn, which informed every NASA mission to the rigned gas giant since.

By Jon Kelvey
Look up!

You need to see the Solar System's most dazzling planet shine its brightest

The August skies are going to be gorgeous.

By Elana Spivack