An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft is on a daredevil mission that is taking it closer to the planet Saturn than it has been in over a decade. In December, the spacecraft ...

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

SEE ALSO: Extraterrestrial Oceans Could Host Life A new photo taken by the Cassini spacecraft near Saturn shows Earth as a small speck of light, framed and dwarfed by Saturn's famous rings.

Well, sort of. Saturn’s rings will be impossible to see from Earth as of March 23rd, according to Forbes. This is because our view of the planet “waxes and wanes” as Saturn orbits the sun ev ...

(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 ...

A new photo taken by a spacecraft near Saturn shows a small moon making waves in the planet's rings. The photo, captured by the Cassini spacecraft on Jan. 16, reveals the moon Daphnis as it makes ...

Saturn’s iconic rings will temporarily vanish from view this weekend due to a rare astronomical alignment known as a ring plane crossing. The phenomenon, which occurs roughly every 13 to 15 ...

although its rings will barely be visible. Credit: Creators.com illustration Saturn is everyone’s favorite planet, it seems. Through a telescope those glorious rings make that world appear so ...

When you think of Saturn, you probably picture the planet with its iconic rings around it. The amazing rings are made up of lots of particles of different sizes, including water, ice and dust.

A year on Saturn is the same as 29.46 Earth years. The planet's most striking feature is its unique ring system. This is composed of thousands of individual rings which themselves are made up of small ...

Our planet will be perfectly aligned with the rings of Saturn. A "ring plane crossing" refers to the event when the Earth or Sun passes through the plane of Saturn's rings, causing the rings to ...

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 ...