NASA’s Cassini mission provided the world with unparalleled views of Saturn and its rings. After 13 years, its final images ...

But later – hundreds of millions of years in the future – a permanent, virtually ringless Saturn will become real, thanks to another process called ring rain in which gravity pulls the rings apart and ...

Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched ...

Both Venus and Saturn will be in the Aquarius constellation, the water bearer, during their close approach. To help spot it, ...

An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...

Saturn has 124 moons, including Enceladus and Titan and it has average surface temperature is -178 degrees Celsius or -288.4 degrees Fahrenheit. Saturn orbits the Sun at a distance of 1,434 million ...

Photo said to show Amelia Earhart ... While this occurrence may be stunning, NASA previously reported that our crossing of Saturn’s ring-plane will be even better in 2038-39 when Earth undergoes ...

The photo shows the progression of the moon moving in front of Saturn and masking the planet and its rings from Earth's view.

This view happens every 13.7 to 15.7 years, with the next side-on view taking place on March 23, 2025. After that, we will begin to see the underside of Saturn's rings and its south pole, another view ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Saturn is already visible in the post-sunset night sky, but it will ...

scientists assumed Saturn’s rings were only about 100 to 400 million years old based on observations made by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini's data showed that the rings were unusually bright ...

Saturn's rings are long thought to be between 100 million and 400 million years old based on more than a decade of observations by NASA's Cassini spacecraft before its demise in 2017. Images by ...