PASADENA, Calif. — As a powerful electrical storm rages on Saturn with lightning bolts 10,000 times more powerful than those found on Earth, the Cassini spacecraft continues its five-month watch over ...

So you think this week's East Coast snowstorm is a biggie? Get a load of the monster storm system that astronomers are seeing on Saturn. Some astronomers have suggested that this is shaping up as a ...

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 ...

Welcome to the 190th edition of 6 Storm Team Starwatch. This is a blog that will be updated every Friday and will list events happening in the sky. Tonight about 1 hour after sunset Saturn will be ...

It's still a traffic jam of planets in the morning sky, the longest I can recall in years. Depending on your latitude, it's more or less easy to see up to four planets gathered in the eastern sky ...

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What it is: Saturn, the seventh planet from the sun, as seen by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft The image was taken 9 million miles (15 million km) from Earth, just as Voyager 2 approached the ringed ...

A powerful lightning storm in Saturn’s atmosphere that began in mid-January 2009 has become the Solar System’s longest continuously observed thunderstorm. It broke the record duration of 7.5 months ...

PASADENA, Calif. – Researchers are tracking a gigantic storm on Saturn that is unleashing lightning bolts more than 1,000 times stronger than those found on Earth. Using instruments aboard the Cassini ...

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, ...

If the problem with winter storm names wasn't obvious when Nemo blanketed the East Coast last month, the latest storm with a name, this week's storm, which has been dubbed Saturn by the Weather ...

A comparison of thermal infrared images of Saturn from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VISIR instrument) is shown, with an amateur visible-light view from Trevor Barry ...