NASA's Voyager 1 flew past Saturn in 1980 and, along with Voyager 2, which reached the planet in 1981, snapped nearly 16,000 images of Saturn, its rings and its moons.

Scientists say that Saturn's rings are falling in on the planet as icy rain due to the gas giant's intense gravity. Saturn's rings are made of pieces of comets, asteroids or moons.

QUICK FACTS ABOUT SATURN. How far it is from the sun: 886 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers), on average How big it is: 72,400 miles (116,500 km) across, or almost 10 times the size of Earth ...

On Sunday night, Saturn will be closer to Earth than at any other point during the year. The American Museum of Natural History's Jackie Faherty explains how people can view this phenomenon.

Here's what to know about when and why Saturn's rings regularly disappear from our view, and when we'll see them again. Uranus: Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have ...

Saturn's rings are long thought to be up to 400 million years old but new data finds they could be around 4.5 billion years old. ... 2010 image made available by NASA shows the planet Saturn, ...

In three months, Saturn's iconic, icy rings will appear to disappear, giving you a preview of what the planet could look like 100 million to 300 million years from now.. On March 23, an optical ...

New research suggests that Saturn's rings may be older than they look—possibly as old as the planet. Instead of being a youthful 400 million years old as commonly thought, the icy, shimmering ...

Saturn pumps into space varying amounts of heat based on its seasons, which drives planet-wide storms, data from NASA's Cassini mission has revealed. Skip to main content.