When these collisions take place, the icy particles vaporize, forming charged water molecules that interact with Saturn’s magnetic field; ultimately, falling toward Saturn, where they burn up in ...

That's ring rain. It turns out, Saturn's magnetic fields are slowly but surely draining away the rings, so we're lucky to visit the rings now, because every 30 minutes, they lose enough water to ...

Saturn’s iconic rings are dissolving due to “ring rain,” as icy particles spiral into the planet. Astronomers predict they ...

Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn all have dipolar magnetic fields, meaning they have a north and south pole - the type of configuration we're obviously used to. But Uranus and Neptune don't. Instead ...

New James Webb Space Telescope images of the stellar nursery Sgr C, near the galactic center, reveal why it contains fewer ...

Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA Charged solar particles flow along Saturn's magnetic field to its poles, generating a display (in infrared) akin to Earth's northern lights. Right click ...

Jupiter’s magnetic field is so vast that its magnetosphere extends out as far as the orbit of Saturn! The presence, strength, and orientation of a body’s magnetosphere can tell scientists a ...