Saturn

The discovery of phosphorus on Enceladus, the sixth-largest moon of Saturn, is perhaps the top space discovery for 2023 as the element is essential for life and has not been detected in an ocean beyond Earth. The discovery by NASA...

A strange object that comes close to the sun, practically touches Saturn, and then moves farther away again even beyond Uranus has been found in space. Called Minor Planet 2060 Chiron, it is a Centaur. Centaurs are like comets that...

NASA has confirmed that the seven distinct rings of Saturn will disappear from view in March 2025, a phenomenon caused by the planet's rotation on an axis. Saturn, a gas giant that is 4 billion years old, isn't the only...

In a remarkable twist of celestial events, Jupiter's short-lived supremacy as the planet with the highest number of moons in our solar system has been abruptly ended. Recent scientific findings have unequivocally revealed the presence of an astounding 62...

A team from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California has suggested that a snake-like robot could explore difficult terrain on icy moons like Enceladus at Saturn. Enceladus is well-known for spewing water through its icy surface and is considered to...

As the year 2020 has had one unusual occurrence after another, it seems fitting that the year will end with another extremely rare event -- what astronomers say is a "triple conjunction" of planets, which will perhaps be another...

A new radiation belt of energetic protons between Saturn and its rings was discovered by a team of researchers led by Greek scientist Elias Roussos, a planetary scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen,...