A distant planet has rings so large it makes Saturn look like a child's toy. But, until now, scientists have been baffled about how the enormous rings keep from self-destructing. The answer: spin.

Saturn Shows Off A Massive Spinning Vortex: 'The Rose' : The Two-Way NASA is calling it "The Rose." By any other name, it's a mammoth storm on Saturn, spanning an estimated 1,250 miles with winds ...

American Friends of Tel Aviv University. (2015, March 25). A new spin on Saturn's peculiar rotation. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 03 ...

New research reveals more about why Saturn's large moon tilts, a puzzle that has intrigued scientists for decades.

Perhaps a giant spinning cylinder of gas stretching thousands of kilometers into Saturn lies at the hexagon's center, and the hexagon's cloudy walls emerged from interactions with slower-spinning ...

Saturn is rather thick around the middle, more than even Jupiter, which could indicate a fast spin. However, Helled pointed out that winds also affect oblateness, so strong winds around the ...

Measuring the rotation of a gaseous planet is no easy task. For Saturn, do observations of its magnetic field — which indicate that it is spinning more slowly than thought — mark a revolution ...

An illustration that shows Saturn's spin (via Nature). Researchers at Tel Aviv University have determined that days on Saturn are about seven minutes shorter than previously thought, thanks to a ...

NASA is calling it "The Rose." By any other name, it's a mammoth storm on Saturn, spanning an estimated 1,250 miles with winds swirling at hundreds of miles per hour. The "false-color" image is ...