Tracking the rotation speed of solid planets, like the Earth and Mars, is a relatively simple task: Just measure the time it takes for a surface feature to roll into view again. But giant gas planets ...

Just about everyone’s favorite planet is back in our evening sky once again. The ringed beauty Saturn reaches its “opposition” point in late August (officially on Aug. 27) when it appears as a fairly ...

A new study proposes that a crash between Titan and another moon spawned Hyperion and, much later, destabilized Saturn’s inner moons into rings.

How can seasons on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, influence its atmosphere? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of Saturn and Titan, the planet's largest moon, from the Cassini spacecraft. - NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute ...