The coming week will see the gas giant Saturn return to the Northern Hemisphere's late night sky, after spending the last few ...

In theory, determining the length of a day on a planet is pretty straightforward—just measure how long it takes to make one full rotation. Doing that with the gas giant Saturn, however, has ...

Figuring out the day length of Earth is more complicated than you might imagine. While on average a day is 24 hours long, ...

Using this data, Mankovich was able to determine that a single day on Saturn lasts 10 hours, 33 minutes and 38 seconds. Decades ago, ...

The new day length of 10:33:38 is somewhat shorter than previous estimates, such as the 10:39:22 estimation from 1981 based on magnetic field data from Voyager. An image of Saturn captured by NASA ...

A day is simply how long it takes a planet to spin all the way around. On Earth, one rotation takes 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds — though combined with the planet's motion around the sun ...

When NASA’s Voyager spacecraft flew by Saturn roughly 35 years ago, radio measurements of its magnetic field pegged the planet’s rotation at 10 hours, 39 minutes and 22.4 seconds.

The length of Saturn's day is still a mystery, but a doomed space probe may soon find out. By Dave Mosher. 2017-04-06T18:29:00Z Share. Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link. An icon ...

Every 13-15 years, Saturn is angled in a way in which the edge of its thin rings are oriented toward Earth – effectively causing them to vanish. Here's why. Story by Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY ...