Saturn’s magnetic shield does not sit where many scientists would expect. After combing through years of data from the Cassini spacecraft, researchers found that a key opening in Saturn’s ...

Saturn’s magnetosphere, a vast and dynamic region dominated by the planet’s intrinsic magnetic field, plays a pivotal role in governing its interactions with the solar wind. The interplay between ...

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Saturn's flickering auroras would challenge even the most vivid northern and southern lights on Earth. Newly released photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2017, during and after Saturn's ...

Researchers have discovered how water ions escape from Saturn's environment. Water ions find a place to exhaust out of the magnetosphere at a reconnection point -- basically where magnetic fields from ...

Scientists using the Cassini spacecraft's Magnetospheric Imaging instrument (MIMI) have detected a new, temporary radiation belt at Saturn, located around the orbit of its moon Dione at about 377,000 ...

A recent observation by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed a baffling and never-before-seen phenomenon above Saturn’s north pole. Scientists have identified a series of dark, ...

Three reports in the Feb. 17 Nature describe a choreographed experiment conducted 13 months ago, in which the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope and the Cassini spacecraft, then en route to Saturn, ...

Although Cassini has vaporized in Saturn's atmosphere, scientists are still learning from its final findings. The latest discovery looks into how Saturn's rings effect the planet itself: by raining ...