New research using Cassini data suggests Titan may not have a global ocean, but small warm water pockets hidden deep in its ...

Saturn’s rings aren’t just a beautiful adornment — scientists can use the feature to understand what’s happening deep inside the planet. By using the famous rings like a seismograph, scientists ...

In 2017, the Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn, ending an exploratory mission that had lasted nearly two decades. But even that final act has proven incredibly useful to scientists, some of whom ...

Jupiter and Saturn look serene through a backyard telescope, but beneath and around their clouds, both worlds are in dramatic ...

Saturn looks calm from the outside, but something strange is happening within. Scientists still cannot agree on basic things ...

For more than a decade, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft traced Saturn’s rings and moons, returning some of the most detailed ...

A new paper suggests Saturn’s core is more like a fluid than a solid, and makes up more of the planet’s interior than we thought. With its massive rings stretching out 175,000 miles in diameter, ...

New Johns Hopkins University simulations offer an intriguing look into Saturn’s interior, suggesting that a thick layer of helium rain influences the planet’s magnetic field. The models, published ...

New research is converting some skeptics to the idea that tiny, icy Mimas may be full of liquid. By Kenneth Chang That’s a moon … and a waterlogged ice ball? With a large crater carved out of its ...

Gas giants like Saturn with their facade of swirling superstorms are brimming with mystery, but intrepid spacecraft like Cassini are beginning to unravel their secrets. The probe burned up like a ...

The findings might challenge established models of the formation of gas giants. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Saturn's rings ...