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New study puts a definitive age on Saturn's rings-they're really young
May 15, 2023 (SPX)
The research, to be published May 12 in the journal Science Advances, pegs the age of Saturn's rings at no more than 400 million years old. That makes the rings...
Saturn's rings much younger than planet itself, new study says
May 12, 2023 (UPI)
The research, led by physicist Sascha Kempf, associate professor in the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, was publishe...
Hubble finds Saturn's rings heating its atmosphere
Mar 31, 2023 (SPX)
The discovery: Saturn's vast ring system is heating the giant planet's upper atmosphere. The phenomenon has never before been seen in the solar system. It's an ...
How a Saturn moon ejects particles from oceans beneath its surface
Feb 24, 2023 (SPX)
Enceladus stands apart from other celestial bodies because of both its appearance and its behavior. It has the whitest and most reflective surface that astronom...
Hubble captures the start of a new spoke season at Saturn
Feb 10, 2023 (SPX)
Like Earth, Saturn is tilted on its axis and therefore has four seasons, though because of Saturn's much larger orbit, each season lasts approximately seven Ear...
SwRI investigations reveal more evidence that Mimas is a stealth ocean world
Feb 01, 2023 (SPX)
Numerical simulations of the moon's Herschel impact basin, the most striking feature on its heavily cratered surface, determined that the basin's structure and ...
Webb Space Telescope, Keck team up to study Saturn's moon Titan
Dec 02, 2022 (SPX)
The only satellite with a dense atmosphere, it's also the only world besides Earth that has standing bodies of liquid on its surface, including rivers, lakes an...
SwRI scientists compile Cassini's unique observations of Saturn's rings
Oct 19, 2022 (SPX)
"For nearly two decades, NASA's Cassini spacecraft shared the wonders of Saturn and its family of icy moons and signature rings, but we still don't definitively...
Exploring Europa possible with silicon-germanium transistor technology
Oct 10, 2022 (SPX)
Regents' Professor John D. Cressler in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and his students have been working with silicon-germanium heteroj...
Scientists depict Dragonfly landing site on Saturn moon Titan
Sep 29, 2022 (SPX)
Bonnefoy and her colleagues assisted the future arrival by characterizing the equatorial, hummocky, knoll-like landscape by combining and analyzing all of the r...
Saturn's rings and tilt could be the product of an ancient, missing moon
Sep 16, 2022 (SPX)
But a new modeling study by astronomers at MIT and elsewhere has found that, while the two planets may have once been in sync, Saturn has since escaped Neptune'...
Long lost moon could have been responsible for Saturn's rings
Sep 15, 2022 (AFP)
But even today, experts cannot agree on how or when they formed. A new study published Thursday in the prestigious journal Science sets out to provide a convinc...
Lowell Observatory points telescopes at Saturn during closest annual approach
Aug 09, 2022 (SPX)
This Saturn viewing season centers around the planet's August 14 opposition. The term opposition indicates when a planet is opposite the Sun from Earth, a time ...
SwRI researcher shows how elliptical craters could shed light on age of Saturn's moons
Jun 22, 2022 (SPX)
"Our work aims to answer the broader question of how old these moons are. To get at this question, my colleagues and I mapped elliptical craters on the surfaces...
Scientists model landscape formation on Titan, revealing an Earth-like alien world
Apr 26, 2022 (SPX)
The presence of these materials - whose mechanical properties are vastly different from those of silicate-based substances that make up other known sedimentary ...
On icy moon Enceladus, expansion cracks let inner ocean boil out
Mar 23, 2022 (SPX)
Enceladus has a diameter of about 504 kilometers (313 miles) - roughly the length of the United Kingdom at its longest point. The moon is covered in ice 20-30 k...
Saturn's High-Altitude Winds Generate Extraordinary Aurorae, Study Finds
Feb 09, 2022 (SPX)
The study, which is based on observations made with the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawai?i Island, is published in Geophysical Research Letters. At all...
SwRI scientist uncovers evidence for an internal ocean in small Saturn moon
Jan 20, 2022 (SPX)
"If Mimas has an ocean, it represents a new class of small, 'stealth' ocean worlds with surfaces that do not betray the ocean's existence," said SwRI's Dr. Alys...
San Andreas Fault-like tectonics discovered on Saturn moon Titan
Oct 18, 2021 (SPX)
On multiple ocean worlds, for example Jupiter's Europa and Saturn's Enceladus, expressions of strike-slip faulting are well documented. Researchers believe the ...
Titan-in-a-glass experiments hint at mineral makeup of Saturn moon
Aug 27, 2021 (SPX)
The researchers will present their results at the fall meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS). ACS Fall 2021 is a hybrid meeting being held virtually an...
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