NASA's Voyager 1 flew past Saturn in 1980 and, along with Voyager 2, which reached the planet in 1981, snapped nearly 16,000 images of Saturn, its rings and its moons.

Though Saturn's axial tilt of 26.7 degrees is similar to that of our planet, which is 23.5 degrees, its much wider orbit means the seasons on the gas giant are much longer than those of Earth.

Around seven asteroids or comets are thought to hit Saturn every year, but we have never spotted one in the act. Now, it ...

Saturn's rings are long thought to be up to 400 million years old but new data finds they could be around 4.5 billion years old. ... 2010 image made available by NASA shows the planet Saturn, ...

The planet Saturn - yes, that's the one with the rings - will look bigger and brighter than at any other time of the year. JACKIE FAHERTY: I am a very big fan of the planet Saturn.

Counting Saturn's new moons, there are 289 moons among the eight planets in the solar system and Pluto, which has five. Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet from a full-size one by the ...

Saturn's rings extend up to 175,000 miles (282,000 km) from the planet. However, they are very thin: The main rings have a height of only 30 feet (10 m), on average, according to NASA.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a brand-new image of giant gas planet Saturn and its incredible ring pattern. The new image, above, was take it on September 22, 2022, but only ...

A giant gas planet comparable in size to Saturn exists around a small red dwarf star. The discovery is beyond the scope of ...

We'll see six planets in the first part of February – Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus and Saturn – and on Feb. 28, they'll be joined by Mercury. But not all of them will be visible to ...