Scientists believe ice plumes on Saturn’s moon Enceladus may hold the building blocks of life. They just need to go collect it. “During its 20-year mission, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft discovered that ice plumes spew from Enceladus’ surface at approximately 800 miles per hour (400 m/s),” scientists

Are you ready to witness an astronomic phenomenon that has not been seen since the Middle Ages? The celestial event, known as the “Christmas star” or “Star of Bethlehem,” will feature Jupiter and Saturn appearing to orbit so close to each other that it will look like a double planet. Every 20

Author: Lisa Grossman / Source: Science News You can’t tell how fast Saturn is spinning by watching the clouds swirling at its surface. But ripples in its rings reveal how fast the planet rotates: Its day flies by in 10 hours, 33 minutes and 38 seconds. “That’s a really fast clip,” says

Source: NASA/JPL The rings of Saturn may be iconic, but there was a time when the majestic gas giant existed without its distinctive halo. In fact, the rings may have formed much later than the planet itself, according to a new analysis of gravity science data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. The

Author: Brett Molina / Source: USA TODAY Saturn is losing its signature rings at a “worst-case scenario” rate, said NASA scientists, and the bands could disappear completely within 100 million years. In a study published Monday in the journal “Icarus,” researchers confirmed Saturn’s rings are