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For thirteen years, from 2004 to 2017, the Cassini-Huygens mission conducted a detailed survey of the Saturn system. It ...

In a frigid corner of the solar system, Saturn’s moon Titan has surprised scientists with an unexpected chemical twist.

Astronomers believe they have discovered a fast-moving comet that Saturn sent careening out of our solar system at a speed far eclipsing humanity's fastest fighter jets. Though the planetary encounter ...

Astronomers have made an unexpected and groundbreaking discovery in our solar system—a ring system forming around Chiron, a ...

Scientists reexamining data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have uncovered exciting new evidence from Saturn’s icy moon ...

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The solar system is composed of the sun, eight major planets, five dwarf planets, over a hundred moons, and countless comets ...

Two faraway worlds in the solar system are about to appear rather close to each other in the night sky on Monday. The first planet from the sun, Mercury, and Saturn, the second of the gas giants in ...