July 2025 presents a significant astrological period as Saturn and Mercury go retrograde simultaneously. This rare 25-day ...

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.

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 ...

Saturn's rings extend up to 175,000 miles (282,000 km) from the planet. However, they are very thin: The main rings have a height of only 30 feet (10 m), on average, according to NASA.

SATURN is notably the most unique among the planets – adorned with thousands of beautiful ringlets. But how many moons does the planet have? And what else should we know about this fascinatin… ...

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.

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 is the sixth planet in the solar system and is about 910 million miles from the sun. It's the second-largest planet and is approximately 10 times larger than Earth.

Saturn has the most moons of any other planet in the solar system. Here, we explore some of the 274 moons that orbit the ringed planet. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu.

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.