Discover interesting facts about Saturn, its rings and whether it could contain extraterrestrial life.

The thinness of the layer adds to the vanishing act. While only lasting for about a day or two, the ring plane crossings, as they’re called, only occur twice during Saturn’s nearly 30-year ...

The icy shell of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, may possibly contain a six-mile-thick layer of methane ice beneath its surface. The methane layer could make it easier to detect signs of life from ...

Saturn's outermost layers are made from swirling gases — mostly hydrogen and helium. The surface of Saturn also holds small amounts of water, ammonia and methane gas, but these gases become ...