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 ...

Saturn will rise above the eastern horizon beneath the stars of the constellation Pisces shortly before midnight for viewers ...

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.

Three of Saturn’s moons appear to the left of the planet in Webb’s view: Dione, Enceladus, and Tethys are visible as points of light. Each is about the size of a large US state.

Saturn’s rings are disappearing, evidenced by an excess of ultraviolet radiation and the erosion of the planet’s upper atmosphere. Using observations of Saturn from NASA’s Hubble Space ...

Nine days before it entered Saturn’s orbit, Cassini captured this natural-color view of Saturn’s rings. The spacecraft was four million miles away from the planet. NASA ...

The researchers estimated the rate at which the incoming dust accumulates on Saturn’s rings, and calculated how long it would have taken to darken the rings to their observed color. The planet ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far beyond any other planet in our solar system. A natural-color view of ...

Saturn’s rings and the other planets will be monitored as part of OPAL. The team hopes to uncover more clues to explain exactly what causes the spokes, and reveal what they truly are.

The spectacular rings of Saturn are not a constant feature of the planet but a temporary one.A hypothesis is that the destruction of a moon formed them 150 million years ago and since then the ...