Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun, holds a distinction no other world in our solar system can claim: it is the only planet with an average density less than water. At 0.687 grams per cubic ...

A planet nearly ten times wider than Earth sounds like the definition of solidity. Saturn certainly looks that way.

One of Saturn's rings does housecleaning, soaking up material gushing from the fountains on Saturn's tiny ice moon Enceladus, according to new observations from the Cassini spacecraft. This is the ...

It seems intuitive that an opaque material should contain more stuff than a more translucent substance. For example, muddier water has more suspended particles of dirt in it than clearer water.

Previous theoretical attempts to infer Saturn’s rotation period have relied on wind observations derived from cloud tracking at the observed cloud level 6. One theoretical approach was based on ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Saturn’s C ring is home to a surprisingly rich array of structures and textures. Much of the structure seen in the outer portions of Saturn’s rings is the result of gravitational perturbations on ring ...

PASADENA, California—Saturn, when glimpsed from afar, seems like Earth’s polar opposite. It’s huge, gaseous, and carts around an entourage of 62 moons. Saturn’s rings alone give it a distinguished ...