Saturn’s iconic rings will briefly vanish from view, a rare astronomical event caused by a quirk of planetary alignment. As ...

Saturn has at least 146 moons, of which 63 are named—and thousands of moonlets are hiding inside its rings. Four of our planets have rings, but Saturn's are enormous and complex, in a class of ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

Out of all the planets in our solar system beyond Earth, most consider Saturn’s beauty to be the most spectacular, with a set ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The International Astronomical Union officially recognized 128 new moons orbiting ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has done it again ... The photo captures the icy blue planet's elusive rings, atmospheric storms, and many of its 27 moons. On Monday, NASA released the image ...

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The planet is made mostly of hydrogen and helium ... The evolution of Saturn’s rings has fundamental impacts on the evolution of Enceladus, and other icy moons of Saturn, as they’re ...

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Another finding was how dramatically the planets varied in brightness over just three years. The team discovered that PDS 70 ...

Based on our conventional models, all of the material that currently makes up the ring surrounding the planet Quaoar should have coalesced and formed a moon. But it didn’t. It’s this last bit ...