A massive whirling vortex recently discovered over Saturn's south pole has features that are similar to hurricanes on Earth and unlike anything astronomers have seen before, a new study finds. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

A day on Saturn just got a few minutes shorter, if new calculations are correct. Using data collected by NASA's Cassini, Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft, scientists have revised the ringed planet's rotation period to 10 hours, 32 minutes and 35 seconds — about 15 minutes shorter than an estimate made only last year. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

As seen through a backyard telescope (and saved as a gif animation). picked by jaxomlotus 2 years ago

One of Saturn's moons may once have harboured a liquid ocean beneath its icy surface. Tethys is a mid-sized satellite with a density close to that of pure ice. But a large valley system visible today must have formed when the crust was being heated and under great strain. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

Pictures of a mysterious moving light that changes its position from one Saturn ring band to another. picked by maxriter 1 year ago

Iapetus has a landscape unlike anything else in the solar system: sharp-edged islands of dark material within pale regions, and patches of white ice on the dark mountainsides. "It is startling," says Carolyn Porco, head of the Cassini imaging team at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, US. picked by DrNothing 12 months ago

Saturn's moon Titan may have a deep, hidden ocean, according to data published in the journal Science. Radar images from the Cassini-Huygens mission reinforce predictions that a reservoir of liquid water exists beneath the thick crust of ice. If confirmed, it would mean that Titan has two of the key components for life - water and organic molecules. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

New observations by a spacecraft suggest Saturn's second-largest moon may be surrounded by rings. If confirmed, it would the first time a ring system has been found around a moon. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

In the 1980s, NASA's Voyager spacecraft measured regular pulses of radio waves coming from Saturn every 10 hours and 39 minutes. That was close to the rough rotation rate scientists have obtained by tracking the motion of Saturn's clouds, suggesting the pulse period is tied to the planet's rotation rate. !!Sound and Video links!! picked by drnothing 10 months ago

The scientists behind the Cassini orbiter have announced the discovery of Saturn's 60th moon, a little thing that showed up in time-lapse photography of the ringed planet. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

NASA's Cassini spacecraft observes Saturn's electrical storm with lightning 10,000 more powerful than the lightning on Earth. The area, where the storm occured, was dubbed "Storm Alley." picked by maxriter 4 months ago

An invisible donut of trapped, hot particles surrounding Saturn is all bent out of shape--a finding that astronomers can't yet explain. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

So these two morons continue to attempt to grab fame by acting like idiots on The View.

I am submitting this headline - it is real. BUT I am linking it to an actual cool story about new stuff we have discovered about Saturn's rings.

Hopefully, we can all ignore the two clowns and they will just go away. picked by Moe 1 year ago

Right over Saturn's south pole, this storm is 8000 miles across, with winds over 350 miles per hour. There's a time-lapse movie, too. picked by Fanatic 2 years ago

This 113 mile-diameter, potato-shaped moon of Saturn is covered with craters. It shares an orbit with another moon--Epimetheus, and the two moons trade positions every four years. picked by Fanatic 2 years ago

Saturn's distinctive moon Iapetus (eye-APP-eh-tuss) is cryogenically frozen in the equivalent of its teenage years. The moon has retained the youthful figure and bulging waistline it sported more than three billion years ago. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A Virginia man accused of suffocating a family of three during a violent rampage entered into a last-minute plea agreement Tuesday that will spare him the death penalty. picked by Ziaphra 2 years ago

Among them, a mission could be launched before the end of the next decade to put a balloon on Titan, the hazy Saturnian moon. picked by DrNothing 11 months ago

Saturn's moon Iapetus has virtually no gray. Rather, its features are all stark black and white. The appearance has long puzzled astronomers. New detailed images suggest sunlight is melting ice on one side of Iapetus, leaving the moon's dark surface exposed, while the opposite half retains its reflective ice-mixed shell. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

The Cassini spacecraft will perform its closest flyby ever of Saturn's ice-spewing moon Enceladus early next year, moving directly into its icy polar geyser for a deep-space shower. picked by ogri2003 1 year ago