If Saturn’s orbit was circular, this edge-on state would occur every 14.7 years. However, Saturn whips through the closer part of its orbit a fair bit faster than the slow march further from the ...

(NEXSTAR) — The sky has already graced us with a total lunar eclipse and a rare planetary alignment, but we’ll soon have the chance to witness another peculiar celestial event: the ...

Rings of Saturn will always carry the taint of the great ... to extreme lengths to prove it’s the real deal. The video features no less than TEN clocks hanging on the wall in the background — ...

As NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory explains in a new blog post, Saturn’s iconic rings tend to litter some of its moons with a variety of material, coating them as they drift in orbit around ...

In December, the spacecraft skimmed by Saturn's outer rings, snapping some of the most detailed images we have ever seen. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook More from Science NASA's Cassini ...

The first of Saturn's satellites were discovered in the 17th century by the Italian-French astronomer Giovanni Cassini (1625-1712) and his Dutch contemporary Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695). However, ...

NASA research shows Saturn’s rings are vanishing permanently, with icy particles raining down into the planet’s atmosphere—potentially gone within 100 to 300 million years. Micrometeoroids ...

NASA's Cassini's spacecraft has been undergoing a series of risky AF "dives" or "ring crossings," swooping between Saturn and its icy rings and over the planet's surface, capturing some incredible ...