Traveling to Jupiter and Saturn is far more complex than simply pointing a spacecraft outward and firing its engines. This in-depth exploration follows humanity’s long journey to the solar system’s ...
New observations show a small Saturn moon has generated electromagnetic waves that extend more than 313,000 miles behind it inside Saturn’s magnetic field. That newly measured reach reveals a tiny icy ...
The curious minds at What If explore the cataclysmic consequences if Jupiter and Saturn collided, revealing the chain reaction such a cosmic clash would unleash across the solar system.
A massive upheaval in the Saturnian system could have also led to the moon Hyperion.
A new study hints that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, was created around 400 million years ago, when two massive moons smashed ...
At a glance, Saturn’s rings appear calm and pristine when observed from afar. These rings are quite narrow and consist mainly of water ice particles that uniformly circle Saturn in a symmetric ...
Under this new model, Titan itself is the result of a collision between two earlier moons: a large body called “Proto-Titan,” nearly as massive as modern Titan, and a smaller companion dubbed ...