Now is a great time to see Saturn, perhaps the most beautiful planet in the night sky. Saturn will be in opposition to the sun on Friday at 10 p.m. EDT (0200 GMT on May 23). This means that the ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have captured compelling evidence of a planet with a mass similar to Saturn orbiting the young nearby star TWA 7. In this image combining ...

Earth appears as a distant speck in the background, over 1.44 billion kilometers (898 million miles) away, while Saturn dominates the frame. A Cosmic Reminder of Our Place in the Universe ...

The pair of probes revealed many unexpected details about the Saturn system, but Voyager 1 was not the first mission to snap an up-close view of the planet. That title belongs to Pioneer 11, which ...

The line in the background is Saturn’s rings. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute In 2015, Cassini made its last approach to Saturn’s moon Dione, with its tall ice cliffs and deep chasms.

Saturn’s northern aurora (shown glowing in ultraviolet light this composite image from the Hubble Space Telescope) and its southern counterpart could warm the planet’s upper atmosphere.

A mini-planet orbiting in the frigid outer reaches of the solar system has a Saturn-like ring of dust and debris that defies the rules of physics, a new study has revealed.