The James Webb Space Telescope has detected a possible gas giant the size of Saturn in the stellar system nearest our own ...

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 ...

Astronomers believe Saturn accumulated the rings late in its life and maintains them in something of a balancing act – trapping them between the pull of the planet's gravity and their own ...

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.

We have a planet parade coming up on Aug. 23, when you'll be able to see six planets in the night sky at the same time, along with a meteor shower that's set to peak at the end of August.

The rings of Saturn could be much older than previously believed, possibly as old as the planet itself. In 2004, when NASA's Cassini probe arrived to study Saturn, it discovered that the ice ...

A Hubble Space Telescope photo of Saturn taken on Oct. 22, 2023, when the planet was approximately 850 million miles from Earth. NASA, ESA, STScI, Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC) ...

This Jan. 2, 2010 image made available by NASA shows the planet Saturn, as seen from the Cassini spacecraft. On Monday, new research suggested that Saturn’s rings may be older than they look ...

Saturn pumps into space varying amounts of heat based on its seasons, which drives planet-wide storms, data from NASA's Cassini mission has revealed. When you purchase through links on our site ...

All month, four planets — Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars — will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours after dark, according to NASA. Uranus ...