When it rains on Saturn, it pours. Every 10 to 20 Earth years, Saturn experiences enormous storms kilometres wide, which look like huge white blotches in the atmosphere with tails stretching all the ...

If you think the weather is bad where you live, then take heart. At least you aren't on Saturn, where storms can rage for 100 years. Though the solar system's most famous storm is the Great Red Spot ...

With its dazzling system of icy rings, Saturn has been a subject of fascination since ancient times. Even now the sixth planet from the sun holds many mysteries, partly because its distance away makes ...

The long-standing mystery of why Saturn seethes with enormous storms every 30 years may have been solved by scientists working with data from NASA’s Cassini mission. The tempests, which can grow into ...

Call it a Saturnian version of the Ouroboros, the mythical serpent that bites its own tail. In a new paper that provides the most detail yet on the life and death of a monstrous thunder-and-lightning ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . Now that we've got our first good look at it, let's put the mega storm on top of the sixth rock from the sun into some perspective: According to NASA, ...

The massive storm, which was 15,000 kilometres wide, 300,000 kilometres long and with winds reaching 500 kilometres per hour, overturned Saturn’s northern atmosphere. In fact, the storm was so big ...

A massive storm that encircled Saturn nearly two years ago was even more powerful than scientists had thought, new research reveals. Observations by NASA's Cassini spacecraft — which first detected ...

Saturn s 2010 Great White Spot storm has set a new record for the largest atmospheric temperature change ever detected during a storm on the ringed planet. By studying the monstrous disturbance using ...