Astronomers announced the discovery of 128 new moons orbiting Saturn on Tuesday. The moons are only a few kilometers in size. Saturn has more moons than any planet in our solar system.

July’s predawn sky offers some rare events, providing another reason to get outdoors to enjoy the relatively cool mornings.

The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...

First-magnitude Saturn is visible to the naked eye, but 8th-magnitude Neptune is not. You’ll need binoculars or a telescope to find the distant ice giant, located 1.1° north of the ringed planet.

Scientists say that Saturn's rings are falling in on the planet as icy rain due to the gas giant's intense gravity. Saturn's rings are made of pieces of comets, asteroids or moons.

Saturn is the sixth planet in the solar system and is about 910 million miles from the sun. It's the second-largest planet and is approximately 10 times larger than Earth .

Images of the area of the microlensing event, indicated by perpendicular white lines, years before the event (a), shortly after peak magnification of the background star in 2020 (b) and in 2023 ...

New research suggests that Saturn's rings may be older than they look—possibly as old as the planet. Instead of being a youthful 400 million years old as commonly thought, the icy, shimmering ...

The Cassini spacecraft that orbited Saturn in 2004-2017 found the planet’s rings to have very little dirt. This was unusual — and the start of a mystery about the rings’ age April 10, 2025 e ...