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. How many moons it has: At ...

Is this the close-up of vinyl, or is it just Saturn's rings? NASA just released a stunningly crisp image of Saturn's rings on their Instagram page last Tuesday, June 15. The image was captured by the ...

Cassini was one of the most remarkable space missions of all time, exploring Saturn and its moons for 13 years before its ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

For decades, astronomers have watched ephemeral formations come and go on Saturn's rings. Now, for the first time in over a decade, these uncanny splotch-like forms are back. NASA calls them "spokes," ...

Born in Decatur, Alabama, Dr. Mae Jemison would become the first African-American woman in space by flying on the STS-47 mission on September 12, 1992. Geneva's mayor and other city officials said the ...

WASHINGTON — NASA will extend the international Cassini-Huygens mission to explore Saturn and its planets to 2017. The agency’s fiscal year 2011 budget provides a $60 million per year extension for ...

As soon as the morning of 29 August, the largest rocket to ever fly will lift off from Nasa’s launch complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center, in Florida. The Artemis I mission, the first flight of Nasa’s ...

Everybody sings the praises of the Saturn V booster rocket that helped bring American boots onto the surface of the Moon, and rightfully so. But so often lost in translation in telling the story of ...

The Dragonfly rotorcraft-lander will be one of NASA's most diversely capable planetary exploration craft. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

A robotic mission to orbit Uranus. A probe that can land on a potentially life-supporting moon of Saturn. And a better plan for astronauts to do high-quality science on the moon. These are among the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. It’s official—NASA is being sent to orbit the seventh planet ...