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 ...

The solar system is composed of the sun, eight major planets, five dwarf planets, over a hundred moons, and countless comets ...

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," ...

A blurry photo posted online in April 2024 shows a celestial body that looks like Earth but is actually Saturn's largest moon, Titan. On April 24, 2024, the X account @historyinmemes posted a blurry ...

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 ...

NASA is working on The Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS) system, a snake-like robot that would be used to explore the surface of Enceladus, one of Saturn's 83 moons. NASA/JPL-CalTech/SWNS NASA’s ...

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 ...

Though Saturn's unusual-looking "cup handle" features were first noted by Galileo in 1610, it would be another 45 years before they were described by Christiaan Huygens as a disk surrounding Saturn.

"As we approach Saturn's summer solstice in 2017, lighting conditions over its north pole will improve, and we are excited to track the changes that occur both inside and outside the hexagon boundary, ...

Is there life outside of Earth? A new snake-like robot could be the one to find out. The Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS) is being developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for a space ...

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 ...