NASA scientists are baffled by an unusual hexagon structure on Saturn, first spotted in the 1980s, that has been there ever ...

The Cassini space probe mission is coming to an end this month when the probe makes its final destructive plunge in to Saturn. It's spent the past thirteen years studying the planet, its rings and ...

Jupiter and Saturn may be similar in size and made of the same gases, but the weather at their poles tells a different story.

Peering Into the Invisible On November 29, 2024, Webb’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph looked at Saturn’s north pole for nearly ten hours—a Saturnian day in full. The instrument made over 3,600 light ...

Jupiter and Saturn host strikingly different polar storms, despite being similar giant planets, and scientists have long wondered why. New simulations suggest the answer may lie deep below the clouds.

Over the years, passing spacecraft have observed mystifying weather patterns at the poles of Jupiter and Saturn. The two planets host very different types of polar vortices, which are huge atmospheric ...

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(Phys.org) —NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole. (Phys.org) —An ice cloud taking shape ...