Overall, the models that fit the data place Saturn's core-envelope boundary a significant distance from the planet's center, roughly 60 percent of the way to the surface.

The core’s stability may help explain a long-standing puzzle: why Saturn emits more energy than it gets from the sun. After the planet formed, it was warm with the heat of its birth, but then it ...

A new paper suggests Saturn’s core is more like a fluid than a solid, and makes up more of the planet’s interior than we thought. With its massive rings stretching out 175,000 miles in ...

Scientists used Saturn's famous rings like a seismograph to study processes in the planet's interior. The researchers found its core must be fuzzy rather than solid, consisting of a 'soup' of ...

Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...

Saturn is the least-dense planet in the solar system, with an average density less than that of water, meaning it would float in a gigantic bathtub. Saturn has a dense core made of metals such as ...

Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun and the second-largest planet in the solar system. ... Beneath its thick atmosphere, scientists believe Saturn has a dense core composed of water, ice, ...

What can the pH level of the subsurface ocean on Enceladus tell us about finding life there? This is what a recent study ...

There will be several chances to see the shadow of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, pass across the ringed planet's Earth-facing ...

The researchers were able to able to build a hazy map of the core of Saturn. That core is massive, composed mainly of heavy elements, weighing somewhere between 12 and 20 times the mass of Earth ...