02 December 2015
Displaced dusty planet booted out of its birthplace
...106906b will be one of the first detected exoplanets that resembles Saturn and its ring system. Image showing a wide-angle view...are needed to ascertain if this unusual planet can pass for Saturn’s counter part – something the team hope to achieve with...
22 February 2016
Researchers constrain a possible location for Planet 9 using Cassini data
... has not. Using data gathered from Cassini’s flybys of Saturn, Jupiter and the outer planets to track the positions and...that a hypothesised distant planet would have on the orbital motion of Saturn, concluded that such a planet (with a mass ten times ...
28 October 2016
Temperature is the key to showing how gas giants form say researchers
...The formation of gas giants such as Jupiter and Saturn has been a long standing problem in astronomy,...gyi. "So maybe an observed planet has only the same mass as Saturn instead of some Jupiter masses.” Despite these positive results, challenges still ...
28 February 2017
The future is here: Elon Musk announces commercial flights to the Moon
...be the most powerful vehicle to reach orbit after the Saturn V moon rocket. At 5 million pounds of liftoff thrust, Falcon Heavy ...is two-thirds the thrust of Saturn V and more than double the thrust of the next largest ...
14 April 2017
Cassini finds evidence for hydrothermal vent activity on Enceladus
... hydrogen in a plume of gas and icy particles spraying from Saturn's moon Enceladus, prompting the question could it be a suitable ... interacts with rock at the bottom of the ocean of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, producing hydrogen gas. Credit: NASA/...
31 July 2017
Complex chemistry on Titan may form membranes
... that might be capable of forming stable, flexible structures similar to cell membranes has been found in sizeable quantities on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Nearly as large as Mars, Titan, is one of our solar system's most curious bodies. It shares...
