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The Object at the Center of Jupiter Is So Strange That It Defies Comprehension

The Object at the Center of Jupiter Is So Strange That It Defies Comprehension

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found that the thick and hazy atmosphere enveloping Saturn's largest moon, Titan, behaves in a very peculiar way.

Scientists Puzzled by Mysterious Motion in Atmosphere of Saturn’s Moon

By Victor Tangermann

A series of ancient impact craters could be evidence of where meteors fell to Earth from a ring system hundreds of millions of years ago.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find Evidence Earth Used to Have a Ring Like Saturn

By Frank Landymore

There's no more evidence than ever that Mimas, Saturn's "Death Star" moon, may be home to a giant underground ocean.

Saturn’s “Death Star” Moon Could be Hiding a Massive Ocean

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists suggest the sand dunes on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan may be the crumbling remains of colliding moons.

Titan Covered With Fragments of Obliterated Moons, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Saturn’s “Death Star” Moon Is Hiding a Secret Ocean

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers have been puzzling over "magic islands" on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. Researchers now have an answer.

Scientists Attempt to Explain “Magic Islands” on Saturn’s Largest Moon

By Victor Tangermann

An entire crowd of people lined up and even started holding up traffic earlier this week — to gaze at Saturn through a telescope.

Man Sets Up Telescope in NYC, Attracts Huge Crowd Letting People Peer Into It

By Victor Tangermann

Enceladus, an icy, 300 miles-in-diameter Moon that orbits Saturn, contains all of the six major ingredients for life after all.

Scientists Extremely Intrigued to Find Ingredients for Life on Enceladus

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One of Saturn's weirdest moons has been captured by the James Webb Space Telescope spewing a gigantic plume of water vapor.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Catches Saturn’s Moon Squirting

By Noor Al-Sibai

Saturn's rings are steadily disappearing as they're being sucked up into the planet's atmosphere and scientists are trying to figure out why.

Saturn Is Sucking Up Its Rings

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of strange lines crossing Saturn's rings, heralding the start of the planet's "spokes season."

Science & Energy

Strange Lines Appear in Saturn’s Rings

By Victor Tangermann

Planetary scientists have made a fascinating hypothesis about Saturn's smallest moon, Mimas, which may be home to a "stealth" ocean.

Scientists Find New Evidence of Hidden Ocean World in Our Solar System

By Noor Al-Sibai

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus isn't only suspected to hold a liquid ocean beneath its icy crust — it's also covered in an astonishing amount of snow.

Something Weird Is Happening on Saturn’s Snow-Covered Moon, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has issued a grant for an autonomous aircraft concept dubbed TitanAir designed to skim over the liquid methane lakes of Saturn's icy moon Titan.

NASA Considers Surfing the Lakes of Saturn’s Moon With an Autonomous Airplane

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers at MIT suspect Saturn may be hiding the remains of an ancient moon in its rings — which could explain the planet's unusual tilt.

Saturn Might Be Hiding Remains of a Secret, Massive Moon in Its Rings

By Victor Tangermann