A bizarre, hexagon-shaped vortex has formed above Saturn's north pole as the planet's northern hemisphere enters summer, data from the international Cassini-Huygens mission revealed. The unusual ...

Here’s how it works. The huge, mysterious hexagon at Saturn's north pole may finally have an explanation. The bizarre hexagonal cloud pattern was first discovered in 1988 by scientists reviewing ...

The twin Voyager spacecraft first observed Saturn’s north polar hexagon in 1980 and 1981. This highly geometric feature in Saturn’s atmosphere has had significant speculation about its origin ...

For a while we’ve known Saturn has a bizarre hexagonal storm at its north pole – but now we’ve discovered it’s even weirder than we thought. Published in Nature Communications, scientists ...

That’s what happened in 2006. There, sitting precisely atop Saturn’s north pole, was an enormous hexagon. At its exact center was … another hexagon. At first, incredulous planetary ...

Sitting atop Saturn’s north pole is one of the Solar System’s most striking weather patterns: a rotating, color-changing hexagon slightly wider than Earth. A new study shows there’s another ...

The latest mystery is the giant hexagon circling Saturn's north pole. Scientists caught glimpses of it decades ago from the Voyager mission, but confirmed its existence with the Cassini spacecraft.

It's hazy days for this hexagon. There's an extensive system of haze layers in the bizarre hexagon on Saturn, a new study has found. "Saturn's Hexagon" is a swirling maelstrom at the planet's ...

The clouds appear to be whipping around the hexagon like cars on a racetrack. “It’s amazing to see such striking differences on opposite ends of Saturn’s poles,” said Bob Brown ...

At Saturn's north and south poles, enormous storms rage around vortices, with the northern storm bordered by a strange hexagonal pattern and large enough to fit four Earths inside. Plenty of ...

This surreal image of Saturn is not a painting The hexagon-shaped jet stream surrounds a giant storm in Saturn's north pole, but this isn't the first time the wild weather has been spotted by Cassini.