In March 2025, Saturn's rings disappeared. From every telescope on Earth, the most famous feature in the solar system was simply gone. That was the smallest of the strange things this planet has done lately. Its moon count nearly doubled overnight.
One of the best places in the solar system to look for life may not have an ocean after all. Another may have been quietly self-regulating its habitability for hundreds of millions of years.
And above the north pole, the James Webb Space Telescope found something nobody can yet explain. Here is everything Saturn has done in the last three years, and what the data is telling us about a planet that refuses to stay described.