No, it's a quirk of Saturn's orbit, which takes 29.5 years to circle the sun, and how the planet is tilted on its axis, per the website. For half of Saturn's "year," the planet is tilted toward ...
However, warns the space agency, Saturn's rings are currently edge-on to the Earth. That’s because, like Earth, its spin axis is tilted with respect to its orbit around the sun, so the ...
Planetary scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have trained it on Saturn to see what happens when summer turns to fall. Earth has seasons because it rotates on a tilted axis ...
Another Saturn mystery is its dramatic 27-degree tilt to one side. According to researchers, that tilt is too large to have formed when the gas giant did or to have been the result of collisions ...