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

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 ...

(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 ...

We've never seen Saturn looking like this before. New images beamed back from the Cassini spacecraft show Saturn's distinctive rings in unprecedented detail. While the rings, as a whole, look like ...

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 ...

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 ...

No spacecraft has ever explored this part of Saturn before, and Cassini was moving at about 77,000 miles per hour as it shot between the large planet and its rings. If even a relatively small ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...