During the weekend, the orbits of Earth and Saturn will combine to create an interplanetary optical illusion for anyone with ...

For lovers of astronomy Saturn’s “disappearing rings” on Sunday will be a rare and fascinating event but for believers in ...

The gravitational pull of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, causes giant, circling "tsunamis" of icy particles in one of the planet's rings, new data suggest. The discovery may solve the 30-year-old ...

Before it plunged into the atmosphere of Saturn on its final death dive, the Cassini spacecraft made 22 orbits of the planet that followed a path no probe had taken before: It flew between the massive ...

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The Cassini spacecraft has obtained the most detailed look ever at Saturn’s rings, including the B ring, which has eluded previous robotic explorers. Its structure seems remarkably different from its ...

Convulsions in the planet’s interior are picked up in the region known as the C ring, and help scientists understand what lies within. By Robin George Andrews Saturn’s icy rings are not just ...

A crack in one of Saturn's rings could be held open by the planet's largest moon, Titan. A new analysis of data from the Cassini orbiter shows that Titan's gravity lifts part of the ring in a rotating ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has found within Saturn’s G ring an embedded moonlet that appears as a faint, moving pinprick of light. Scientists believe it is a main source of the G ring and its single ...

All the hues of Saturn's B Ring pop out in a high-resolution color image sent back by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Amanda Kooser Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a ...

(CNN) — Famously known for its extensive ring system, Saturn is one of four planets in our solar system that have the distinctive feature. And now, scientists hypothesize that Earth may have sported ...

The Cassini spacecraft has detected two and possibly three new additions to the already full environment of Saturn, and scientists are puzzled over what they've seen. The first discovery is a wispy ...