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

Look Up!

"When people look through a telescope, they’re all the same."

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

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

Enceladus Heads Unite

"The next step is to figure out if indeed it is inhabited..."

Scientists Extremely Intrigued to Find Ingredients for Life on Enceladus

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

Geyser

"When I was looking at the data, at first, I was thinking I had to be wrong."

James Webb Catches Saturn’s Moon Squirting

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.

Ring Conundrum

Hey, spit that out!

Saturn Is Sucking Up Its Rings

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

Spoke Season

"It's a fascinating magic trick of nature we only see on Saturn — for now at least."

Strange Lines Appear in Saturn's Rings

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

Water Sign

There could be life here... right in our very own Solar System. 

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

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.

Snowball Moon

That's a lot of snow.

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

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.

Titan Surfer

All aboard the TitanAir!

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

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.

Chrysalis

It's a compelling theory that could explain a lot.

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

Jupiter's massive moons may be the reason why the gas giant never formed rings like its neighbor Saturn, according to new research.

Poor Jupiter

Talk about the vacuum of space!

Jupiter's Moons Accused of Sucking Up the Planet's Rings

Saturn's beautiful rings are vanishing, scientists say — but it's happening slowly, at least, in a geological or cosmic timescale.

Ring Rain

"Very, very sad."

Saturn's Rings Are Disappearing, Scientists Say

Planetary scientists believe they've unlocked two mysteries about Saturn while studying its atmospheric currents.

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