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Radar images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal many lakes on Titan's surface.

Saturn's Moon Titan May Have 'Phantom Lakes' and Caves

By Meghan Bartels published

These "phantom lakes" may be evidence of seasonal changes on the moon.

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Saturn and moons

Why Saturn's 'Ring Moons' Are Different Colors and Shapes

By Charles Q. Choi published

The probe's death death dive helped shed light on the mystery.

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An illustration shows the gas giant orbiting close to a star will starquakes similar to those found in our own sun.

Starquakes Rock Alien Sun, Revealing Details of a 'Hot Saturn'

By Rafi Letzter published

NASA's TESS mission has, for the first time, detected a planet orbiting a star with visible starquakes.

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saturn rings

Saturn Is Losing Its Rings

By Meghan Bartels published

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cassini grand finale

It's Raining Tiny Particles from Saturn's Innermost Ring

By Meghan Bartels published

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Saturn's hexagon

Saturn Sprouts Another Weird Hexagon, Puzzling Scientists

By Kimberly Hickok published

Saturn just keeps getting weirder.

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Enceladus

There's Spooky Plasma Music Traveling From Saturn to its Weirdest Moon

By Rafi Letzter published

Researchers for the first time recorded the gas giant's vibrating plasma signal to Enceladus. And now you can listen to it too.

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Cassini flying over Enceladus

No Aliens, But Scientists Find More Evidence for Life on a Saturn Moon

By Kimberly Hickok published

Large molecules coming out of Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons, might be produced by a biological source beneath the surface.

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Saturn's moon Cosmic Ravioli

Here's Why Saturn's Inner Moons Are Shaped Like Ravioli and Potatoes

By Charles Q. Choi published

The odd shapes of the inner moons of Saturn, from ravioli to potatoes, may be due to mergers of tiny moonlets, a new study finds.

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Cassini image of Saturn.

Moon Birth and Methane Weather: Cassini's 7 Oddest Saturn Finds

By Jesse Emspak published

From insights into how moons are born to Saturnian lightning to a bizarre hexagon pattern, the Cassini mission has revealed some odd things about the ringed planet.

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