Cassini scientists have discovered an unexpected menagerie of clouds lurking in the depths of Saturn’s complicated atmosphere. “Unlike the hazy, broad, global bands of clouds regularly seen in ...

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Saturn’s largest moon has long looked like a frozen time capsule of early Earth, but a new set of measurements has upended ...

A team of astronomers including McGill Professor Nicolas Cowan has unraveled the enigmatic atmosphere of the exoplanet HAT-P-18 b, shedding light on its intriguing blend of gases, clouds, and even the ...

This image shows dramatic details in the swirling, turbulent bands of clouds in Saturn’s atmosphere. Particularly noteworthy is the disturbed equatorial region. The image was taken with the Cassini ...

We tend to think of the weather as mundane, the sort of boring things you talk about when you have nothing else to say, but in the scope of the solar system, it’s one of the most interesting things ...

JWST observations of Saturn's atmosphere revealed unprecedented details of its aurora and upper atmosphere, including previously unseen, complex structures. In the ionosphere (1100 km altitude), dark, ...

Astronomers have recently discovered that nitrogen in Titan's atmosphere may have originated far from Saturn's womb in the dimly-lit and bitter cold Oort Cloud, ancient birthplace of comets. Saturn's ...

This raw image shows Saturn's north polar region (left half) and part of its north polar hexagon. At right, we see the rings stacked up in the distance. The photo was taken captured by NASA's Cassini ...

Even though Saturn's moon Titan receives very little sunlight and its thick atmosphere absorbs most of it, enough appears to reach the surface to drive seasonal weather cycles. Titan has some ...

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As you approached Saturn, you would be the first human to take in the glory of its rings and its swirling atmosphere in ...