When these collisions take place, the icy particles vaporize, forming charged water molecules that interact with Saturn’s magnetic field; ultimately, falling toward Saturn, where they burn up in ...

Everything's stately and calm—until you zoom in. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute Saturn's powerful magnetic field also has subtle and strange effects on the smaller ...

That's ring rain. It turns out, Saturn's magnetic fields are slowly but surely draining away the rings, so we're lucky to visit the rings now, because every 30 minutes, they lose enough water to ...

Research based on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery, taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, has ...

Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA Charged solar particles flow along Saturn's magnetic field to its poles, generating a display (in infrared) akin to Earth's northern lights. Right click ...

Jupiter’s magnetic field is so vast that its magnetosphere extends out as far as the orbit of Saturn! The presence, strength, and orientation of a body’s magnetosphere can tell scientists a ...

The rings, influenced by Saturn's magnetic field, are gradually being pulled into the planet. The phenomenon of "ring rain" may lead to their disappearance in the future. Saturn, a gas giant with ...