To scrutinize Saturn’s innards, scientists turned to the planet’s rings, which act like a seismograph and record the gas giant’s internal sloshing and pulsing.By decoding subtle ripples in ...

A rippling detected within the rings around Saturn has helped scientists determine that the giant planet may be “fuzzy” at its core. The findings also sugget that Saturn’s core is much ...

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 ...

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.

Spacecraft Missions to Saturn. Due to its incredible distance from the Earth, only four spacecraft have visited and explored Saturn, all from NASA: Pioneer 11 in September 1979, Voyager 1 and Voyager ...

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.

The farthest planet from the Sun that be observed with the naked eye, the existence of Saturn has been known for thousands of years. And much like all celestial bodies that can be observed with ...

One of Saturn’s rings has revealed properties of its core, hidden deep beneath the planet’s golden atmosphere. That core isn’t the lump of rock and ice that many scientists had envisioned ...

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… ...