The crags frame a glowing Saturn, floating huge, rings nearly edge-on, like a giant’s belt-buckle. Part of the planet is shadowed, blending into the cobalt-turquoise sky. The whole of it is ...

The view was acquired on Sept. 14, 2017 at 19:59 UTC (spacecraft event time). The view was taken in visible light using the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera at a distance of 394,000 miles (634,000 ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was recently used to capture direct images of four Saturn-like exoplanets in a solar system 130 light-years away.

Its impressive moon tally means it has the most moons of any other planet in the solar system. Saturn's satellites differ greatly in their composition, from icy giants with subsurface oceans to ...

Saturn’s new grand total of 274 moons is almost twice as many as all the rest of the moons in our solar system combined—so, the planet has clearly earned the title of “moon king.” ...

Two planets, one rocky world close to the sun and one gas giant, are about to appear close to each other in the night sky in a small planetary conjunction next week. Mercury and Saturn are ...

The moons are only a few kilometers in size. Saturn has more moons than any planet in our solar system. Astronomers have discovered 128 new moons orbiting Saturn, further solidifying the planet as ...