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

Bands of clouds look like they were painted on the planet in the new photo, which shows Saturn's north pole dominated by the planet's hexagonal jet stream surrounding the "hurricane-like storm" at ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

This artist's concept of a lake at the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan illustrates raised rims and rampart-like features as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft ...

As we reach the north pole, we'll notice a slight problem with our plan to land on the surface below. There is no surface below. Saturn's made almost entirely of hydrogen and helium gas ...

that periodically erupts jets of ice crystals and plumes of gas above its South Pole, which were first recognized by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2005. During the 13-year mission studying Saturn ...

This artist's concept of a lake at the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan illustrates raised rims and rampartlike features as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Titan, Saturn's largest moon ...

Saturn is orbited by 146 moons ... ice and water vapor hundreds of kilometers into space from its south pole. NASA's Cassini ...

The thin, outermost ring in the photo is composed of particles shepherded by the gravity of two moons orbiting around it.

Saturn is the farthest planet from Earth that ... coming from cracks known as tiger stripes near the moon's south pole. This is a possible hint that there may be life in the underground ocean ...