New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have identified the mechanism behind one of planetary science’s most persistent puzzles: why Saturn’s measured rotation rate appears to shift by ...
Researchers at Northumbria University have used the most powerful space telescope ever built to answer one of the longest-standing puzzles in planetary science—why does Saturn appear to spin at a ...
A decades-old mystery about Saturn has finally been solved thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. Scientists discovered that Saturn’s changing “rotation rate” was never caused by the planet ...
For more than 40 years, planetary scientists believed they knew how long a day on Saturn lasted. They were listening to the wrong clock. A study published in May 2026 in the Journal of Geophysical ...
For years, Saturn made no sense. Measure its rotation rate using radio signals from its aurora and you get one number. Use the planet’s gravity field and you get another. Worse still, the ...
How do Saturn’s northern lights drive the planet’s atmospheric winds? This conundrum has baffled scientists for decades, but now a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Space ...
The picture shows the Saturn in infrared light with aurora as imaged by the orbiting Cassini spacecraft in 2007. NASA For four decades, Saturn appeared to be breaking physics. Each new measurement of ...
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