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

James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

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

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

Sometimes the best stargazing happens on ordinary nights. Late June 2025 showcases consistent cosmic rhythms: Venus is ...

This finding has opened up new avenues for understanding the early universe and the origins of water on our planet ...

Saturn's rings' vanishing act comes down to the fact that the gas giant is tilted on its axis by 26.7 degrees, similar to Earth's tilt of 23.5 degrees. 'Propellers, waves and speckles' in close-up ...

The plane crossing will begin at around 12:04 p.m. ET on Sunday, according to in-the-sky.org. Saturn’s rings won’t come into full view from Earth for a few months, and we may not get to see ...

Saturn as seen from the Cassini–Huygens space-research mission. Listen, we know this has already been a disorientating year so far, but Saturn is about to lose its iconic rings. Well, sort of.

In early 2025, you will get a chance to have an even more unusual view: Saturn, without its rings obscuring it. Saturn will not have its distinctive rings forever.

Saturn's powerful magnetic field also has subtle and strange effects on the smaller particles in its rings. Voyager and Cassini returned images of bright radial spikes and twisting lines like the ...

Nothing else in the Solar System is quite like Saturn. At its poles, a terrible storm rages, a perfect hexagon twenty thousand miles wide with raindrops of molten diamond, flung by 300-mph winds.