A quirk of planetary positions will make Saturn's 200,000-mile-around rings disappear for one night on March 23. Plan ahead, ...

A theory involving a "mushy zone" of ice along the moon’s fissures could explain the enormous plumes erupting from its south ...

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 ...

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has long been considered ... towering plumes of water vapor erupting from the moon's frozen surface, for instance, and it was later theorized that these geysers come ...

Full of extraordinary footage, Robert Stone's blissed-out mind-bender of a movie meditates on the possibilities of life in the universe.

Most of this debris burns up in the earth’s atmosphere when they get too close and never reach the surface. Around Saturn, astronomers expected this dark dust to be omnipresent in the rings, ...

Why don't Saturn's rings throw a shadow onto the planet's surface, like its moons do? John Grimley Toronto, Ontario The simple answer is that Saturn's rings do cast shadows on the planet's surface!

Saturn is orbited by 146 moons, with Enceladus being the sixth largest at approximately 500km in diameter. This small, icy moon is characterized by its highly reflective white surface and geyser ...

Meanwhile, Saturn is 9.5 astronomical units away from the sun, according to astronomers. Instead of a rocky surface like Mercury, hydrogen and helium mostly make up Saturn’s surface, with ...