The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision ...

These are the closest-ever images of Saturn. They were taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft just days before it crashed into Saturn. The results are spectacular. Shortly after Cassini took its final ...

Saturn is one of the planets that can be seen from Earth with the naked eye. It is the sixth planet from the Sun, between Jupiter and Uranus. With an equatorial diameter of 120,000 kilometres, it is ...

Saturn’s rings are an arresting sight even through modest telescopes. The planet is made mostly of hydrogen and helium whereas the rings are billions of pieces of mostly bright-white water ice ...