Saturn

Webb Captures Saturn in Infrared

Saturn’s icy rings glow in this infrared view from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope released on March 25, 2026. Combining this image with another that NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured – also released on the same day – provides scientists with a richer, more layered understanding of the gas giant’s atmosphere. In Webb’s infrared image, […]

Posted March 25, 2026

Astrophysics

Exoplanet Atmosphere

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Planetary Environments & Atmospheres

Planets

Saturn

Science & Research

The Solar System

NASA Webb, Hubble Share Most Comprehensive View of Saturn to Date

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have teamed up to capture new views of Saturn, revealing the planet in strikingly different ways. Observing in complementary wavelengths of light, the two space observatories provide scientists with a richer, more layered understanding of the gas giant’s atmosphere.

Posted March 25, 2026

Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Astrophysics

Jupiter

Marshall Astrophysics

Marshall Space Flight Center

Planets

Saturn

Science & Research

Sonifications

The Solar System

Uranus

Listen to This Month’s ‘Planetary Parade’ With NASA’s Chandra

In late February, people in the Northern Hemisphere can look up for a special sight: six planets will all be visible from clear and dark night skies. New sonifications from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory released Feb. 25 will help commemorate this latest “planetary parade.” Because the planets in our solar system travel around the Sun […]

Posted February 25, 2026

Titan

Astrobiology

Cassini

Deep Space Network

Dragonfly

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Planetary Science

Planetary Science Division

Saturn

Saturn Moons

NASA Study Suggests Saturn’s Moon Titan May Not Have Global Ocean

A key discovery from NASA’s Cassini mission in 2008 was that Saturn’s largest moon Titan may have a vast water ocean below its hydrocarbon-rich surface. But reanalysis of mission data suggests a more complicated picture: Titan’s interior is more likely composed of ice, with layers of slush and small pockets of warm water that form […]

Posted December 17, 2025

Cassini

Astrobiology

Enceladus

Saturn

Saturn Moons

NASA Cassini Study Finds Organics ‘Fresh’ From Ocean of Enceladus

Researchers dove deep into information gathered from the ice grains that were collected during a close and super-fast flyby through a plume of Saturn’s icy moon. A new analysis of data from NASA’s Cassini mission found evidence of previously undetected organic compounds in a plume of ice particles ejected from the ocean that lies under […]

Posted November 19, 2025

Astrobiology

Planets

Saturn

Saturn Moons

The Solar System

Titan

NASA Research Shows Path Toward Protocells on Titan

NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments called vesicles could form naturally in the lakes of Saturn’s moon Titan. Titan is the only world apart from Earth that is known to have liquid on its surface. However, Titan’s lakes and seas are not filled with water. Instead, they contain liquid hydrocarbons like ethane and methane. […]

Posted July 14, 2025

Dragonfly

Missions

NASA Directorates

Planetary Science

Planetary Science Division

Planets

Saturn

Saturn Moons

Science Mission Directorate

The Solar System

NASA’s Dragonfly Mission Sets Sights on Titan’s Mysteries

When it descends through the thick golden haze on Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft will find eerily familiar terrain. Dunes wrap around Titan’s equator. Clouds drift across its skies. Rain drizzles. Rivers flow, forming canyons, lakes and seas. But not everything is as familiar as it seems.

Posted May 22, 2025

Astrophysics

Goddard Space Flight Center

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Planets

Saturn

Saturn Moons

Science & Research

The Solar System

Titan

Webb’s Titan Forecast: Partly Cloudy With Occasional Methane Showers

Saturn’s moon Titan is an intriguing world cloaked in a yellowish, smoggy haze. Similar to Earth, the atmosphere is mostly nitrogen and has weather, including clouds and rain. Unlike Earth, whose weather is driven by evaporating and condensing water, frigid Titan has a methane cycle.

Posted May 14, 2025

Hubble Space Telescope

Rings of Saturn

Saturn

A Saturnian Summer

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of Saturn and its colossal rings on July 4, 2020, during summer in the gas giant’s northern hemisphere. Two of Saturn’s icy moons are also clearly visible: Mimas at right, and Enceladus at bottom. The light reddish haze over the northern hemisphere seen in this color composite could […]

Posted July 24, 2024

Cassini

Rings of Saturn

Saturn

Cassini Sees Saturn

The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft captured this last “eyeful” of Saturn and its rings on March 27, 2004, as it continued its way to orbit insertion. This natural color image shows the color variations between atmospheric bands and features in the southern hemisphere of Saturn, subtle color differences across the planet’s middle B ring, as well as […]

Posted July 2, 2024