Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised discoveries from a team ...

Saturn's iconic ring system will disappear, albeit temporarily, on March 23—a preview of its fate in 100 million years.

Scientists have discovered 128 new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the total number to 274. This is the largest number of ...

Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun, is a gas giant known for its prominent ring system, composed of ice particles, and is the second-largest planet in our solar system, after Jupiter. Saturn is ...

That’s right, Saturn is losing its rings! And fast. Much faster, even, than scientists had first thought. Right now, it’s raining 10,000 kilograms of ring rain on Saturn per second.

Once its rings vanish from sight in March 2025, Saturn will look like a pale yellow sphere through most telescopes.

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 probe, which was built by ESA, parachuted to the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, in January 2005—the most distant landing to date in our solar system. Huygens returned spectacular ...

In 2005, an alien probe flew through the hazy and cold atmosphere of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, and landed on the world's surface. That spacecraft -- named the Huygens probe -- was sent ...

the sixth largest of Saturn's moons, is known for spraying out tiny icy silica particles -- so many of them that the particles are a key component of the second outermost ring around ...

“For Saturn’s rings, age determination is even more difficult — there are no craters, and the collisional nature of ring particles erases most of its history. Depending on which measurements ...