A processed, true-color image of Saturn’s polar vortex based on photos taken by Cassini on April 26, 2017 during the spacecraft’s first dive between the planet and its rings. NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

NASA's most monumental achievements, the space agency's epic mission, provided the world with the first real, close-up images of Saturn. This historic breakthrough completely transformed our ...

NASA's Cassini probe has beamed home stunning images of Saturn and Titan, the ringed planet's largest moon. The new natural-color Cassini photos, which were unveiled Wednesday (Aug. 29), capture ...

The planet is crawling toward autumnal equinox in its northern hemisphere in early 2025, but it's already entered into what NASA calls "spoke season." It's prime time for Hubble observations to ...

Voyager 2 conducted a flyby of Uranus in 1986, and the images revealed a planet with a more pale cyan or blue color. The vessel flew by Neptune in 1989 and the imagery showed a planet with a rich ...

Neptune has long been depicted as a deeper, darker blue than its fellow ice giant Uranus, but a new study shows that both are a similar shade of light greenish blue.

"Although the familiar Voyager 2 images of Uranus were published in a form closer to ‘true’ color, those of Neptune were, in fact, stretched and enhanced, and therefore made artificially too ...

Weather; Planet Parade: NASA tips for seeing 4 bright planets in our night sky all month. Published: ; Jan. 08, 2025, 3:06 p.m.

On July 23, 2018, NASA published a different picture of the former planet and said it revealed "the most accurate natural color images of Pluto" if seen by the human eye.

Don't look so blue, Neptune: Now astronomers know this planet's true color Neptune isn't as blue as people think, and astronomers have figured out why Uranus sometimes appears a tad greener.

The spacecraft will loop around Saturn approximately once per week, plunging 22 times between the rings and the planet. And then on September 15, 2017, the spacecraft is scheduled to dive into ...