The snapping back heats plasma around Saturn and the heated plasma becomes trapped in the magnetic field. It rotates around the planet in islands at the speed of about 100 kilometers per second ...

Saturn stands out among the planets in our solar system because its magnetic field appears to be almost perfectly symmetrical around the rotation axis. Detailed measurements of the magnetic field ...

Uncover the mystery behind Saturn’s iconic rings. ExtremeTech explains their origins and the science of our solar system.

On Saturn, Cassini is telling us that the magnetic field and the rotational axis are almost perfectly aligned and yet Saturn has a rather large magnetic field. Scientists are not sure why that is ...

2004-06-29 04:00:00 PDT Pasadena-- The spacecraft called Cassini, now little more than a million miles from Saturn, is already establishing that the mysterious ringed planet's magnetic field is ...

The absence of a visible solid surface and close alignment of the magnetic field and rotational axis mean that for Saturn, the two best ways of measuring planetary rotation are not available. So ...

Saturn’s rings are being pulled into the planet by its gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles under the influence of Saturn’s magnetic field, confirming the findings made by Voyager 1 & 2 ...

The magnetic fields of Earth, Saturn and Jupiter are similar in that they all have a funnel-shaped geometry. This causes energetic particles like electrons in the solar wind to precipitate into ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a brand-new image of giant gas planet Saturn and its incredible ring pattern. The new image, above, was take it on September 22, 2022, but only ...

Saturn, a gas giant that is 4 billion years old, ... "The rings are being pulled into Saturn by gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles under the influence of Saturn's magnetic field," NASA said.

A photo of Saturn taken by the Hubble Telescope last October. Small dark marks called ring spokes are visible on the planet's left side, just inside the widest black band of space between rings.

Powerful solar winds squish Jupiter's magnetic field 'like a giant squash ball' A mysterious, 100-year solar cycle may have just restarted There's liquid on Titan, Saturn's largest moon.