Pasadena, Calif. — An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA’s Cassini mission. NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 ...
Jupiter and Saturn may be similar in size and made of the same gases, but the weather at their poles tells a different story.
Jupiter and Saturn host some of the strangest weather in the Solar System, and nowhere is that more obvious than at their poles. Instead of a single swirling hurricane, each world displays organized ...
Saturn is famous for its gargantuan hexagon—a gigantic six-sided jet stream that whorls about 70 degrees north. The gargantuan feature, most recently closely observed in 2017, usually appears in ...
Earlier in 2013, NASA's Cassini orbiter captured a stunning photo of a mysterious storm on Saturn. Until now, we've known very little about the storm, other than it's been stuck to Saturn's north pole ...
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.
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered strange "dark beads "above a four-armed star pattern in Saturn's atmosphere. The surprising structures are unlike anything scientists have seen before, ...
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 ...