Whilst Saturn is spectacular to view with the naked eye alone, a 6-inch telescope will help resolve the gas giant's iconic ...

5 fast facts about Saturn Saturn is the farthest planet from Earth that is still visible with the naked eye in the night sky. The name "Saturn" comes from the Roman god of wealth and agriculture.

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

In three months, Saturn's iconic, icy rings will appear to disappear, giving you a preview of what the planet could look like 100 million to 300 million years from now. On March 23, an optical ...

How does Saturn rank in number of moons? Counting Saturn's new moons, there are 289 moons among the eight planets in the solar system and Pluto, which has five.

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.

All month, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see without a telescope or binoculars — with them, you can see Uranus and Neptune, too.

Using the powerful space telescope, astronomers saw the ringed planet's northern summer cooling as a 7.5-year-long autumn approaches.

F iguring out the day length of Earth is more complicated than you might imagine. While on average a day is 24 hours long, ...

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 ...

Astronomers say they have discovered more than 100 new moons around Saturn, possibly the result of cosmic smashups that left debris in the planet’s orbit as recently as 100 million years ago.

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.