New NASA research confirms that Saturn is losing its iconic rings at the maximum rate estimated from Voyager 1 & 2 observations made decades ago. The rings are being pulled into Saturn by gravity as a ...
Saturn's famous rings are about to disappear. No, not literally – that isn't projected to happen for hundreds of millions of years. But for astronomers and stargazers using ground-based telescopes, ...
On Jan. 25, 1986, the Voyager 2 robot probe entered the Uranus system and reported a procession of wonders. The encounter lasted only a few hours, but the data faithfully relayed back to Earth have ...
(NEXSTAR) — The sky has already graced us with a total lunar eclipse and a rare planetary alignment, but we’ll soon have the chance to witness another peculiar celestial event: the disappearance of ...
NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft captured dark streaks produced by geysers visible on the icy surface of Triton's south polar ...
The secret has been hiding in plain view for 40 years. But it took the insight of a veteran astronomer to pull it all together within a year, using observations of Saturn from NASA’s Hubble Space ...
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When Voyager 1 launched in 1977, scientists hoped it could do what it was built to do and take up-close images of Jupiter and Saturn. It did that – and much more. Voyager 1 discovered active volcanoes ...
NASA has published a new photograph snapped by the iconic 30-year-running Hubble Space Telescope, and it reveals a mysterious phenomenon occurring in Saturn's rings. The rarity of these ring spokes ...
UNDATED (WKRC) - Voyager 1, man's first craft to enter interstellar space, may have gone dark. According toThe New York Times,the Voyager 1, which was launched in 1977, was designed to capture images ...
Nothing else in the Solar System is quite like Saturn. At its poles, a terrible storm rages, a perfect hexagon twenty thousand miles wide with raindrops of molten diamond, flung by 300-mph winds.