In the iconic "Sound of Music" score, "My Favorite Things," a young Julie Andrews lists snowflakes as objects that bring her ...

On December and January evenings, Orion rises early and dominates the southern sky by mid-evening, making him the easiest ...

Bright patches of light, known as sun dogs, appear when sunlight bends through hexagonal ice crystals in high-altitude clouds. These dazzling displays ...

The Cassini spacecraft has been exploring Saturn, its moons and its rings for more than 10 years, but this week the daring probe did something special. On Sunday, Cassini dove just outside Saturn's ...

A new layer of mysteries hangs above Saturn's turbulent clouds. The James Webb Space Telescope has detected strange gaseous patterns, never before observed in the Solar System. This unprecedented ...

For decades, Saturn’s upper atmosphere has been one of the solar system’s great enigmas. Even the Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn for over a decade, had difficulty catching clear signals from ...

Something unexpected is going on in Saturn’s upper atmosphere – and scientists don’t know what it is yet. The planet has always been a mystery, with its iconic rings and that strange six-sided storm ...

Something strange is stirring in Saturn’s skies. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted something entirely new in Saturn’s atmosphere: a string of dark, bead-like features high ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected unusual dark beads in Saturn's ionosphere and a lopsided star pattern in its stratosphere. These previously unseen features may be interconnected and linked ...

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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, ...