New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have identified the mechanism behind one of planetary science’s most persistent puzzles: why Saturn’s measured rotation rate appears to shift by ...

Two scientists from CNRS and Sorbonne University working at the Institute of Celestial Mechanics and Ephemeris Calculation (Paris Observatory—PSL/CNRS) have just shown that the influence of Saturn's ...

A hexagon-shaped atmospheric phenomenon first spotted on Saturn by Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 has intrigued scientists since the 1980s. More recently, NASA's Cassini mission has periodically observed the ...

For years, Saturn made no sense. Measure its rotation rate using radio signals from its aurora and you get one number. Use the planet’s gravity field and you get another. Worse still, the ...

The picture shows the Saturn in infrared light with aurora as imaged by the orbiting Cassini spacecraft in 2007. NASA For four decades, Saturn appeared to be breaking physics. Each new measurement of ...

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