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

The dance between Saturn and Neptune Astronomers have suspected before that Saturn’s axial tilt comes from gravitational interactions with its outer companion, Neptune, because Saturn’s tilt precesses ...

Saturn's tilt precesses — that is, shifts over time, much like how a spinning top leans back and forth before it falls over — at nearly the same rate as the orbit of Neptune.

Saturn's bulk rotation period is not expected to have changed appreciably over the past few decades, so a good surrogate of the rotation period should also have remained fairly constant. Recent ...

Voyager: Saturn's spinning ring These images of Saturn's rings spinning gently around the planet were taken by Voyager 2 in 1981. Its twin, Voyager 1, had passed the gas giant a few months earlier.

Saturn's rings could have been formed by a missing moon that smashed into the planet around 160 million years ago, scientists believe. The absent moon, called Chrysalis, might also explain why the ...

“Saturn is a spinning top, and how quickly that spinning top is rotating is in sync with how quickly Neptune’s orbit is spinning around,” Brynna Downey, a planetary scientist at UC Santa ...

Firstly, Saturn is made up of stable gassy layers and potentially has a diffuse rocky core. Secondly, the layers are possibly spinning at different speeds.

Just about everyone’s favorite planet is back in our evening sky once again. The ringed beauty Saturn reaches its “opposition” point in late August (officially on Aug. 27) when it appears as ...

Why does the Earth spin? Sara H., age 5, New Paltz, New York A globe was the first thing I ever bought with my own money.