The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...

The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...

The view was acquired on Sept. 14, 2017 at 19:59 UTC (spacecraft event time). The view was taken in visible light using the ...

The simple answer is that Saturn’s rings do cast shadows on the planet’s surface! NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017, took the dramatic image of the rings ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

It's just that they will, for a short time, become impossible to see from Earth. Earth’s view of the planet waxes and wanes ...

The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision about 100 million years ago.

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has long been considered ... towering plumes of water vapor erupting from the moon's frozen surface, for instance, and it was later theorized that these geysers come ...

Six planets are currently gracing our night sky, forming an arc on our celestial dome. From west to east: Saturn, Mercury, ...

Why don't Saturn's rings throw a shadow onto the planet's surface, like its moons do? John Grimley Toronto, Ontario The simple answer is that Saturn's rings do cast shadows on the planet's surface!