Twenty years ago, a rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on a billion mile trek to Saturn. The photos the probe ...

Saturn, the jewel of our solar system, has captivated the imagination of space enthusiasts and scientists alike for centuries. Thanks to NASA's Cassini spacecraft, we now have the privilege of ...

The Cassini data has led to a new finding, published May 15 in the journal Icarus, that supports this theory of the rings appearing long after Saturn’s initial formation.

By 1675, Giovanni Cassini had figured out that the ring was a series of smaller rings with gaps between them. Over a century later, Pierre-Simon Laplace would mathematically demonstrate that any ...

When NASA's Cassini spacecraft reached Saturn in 2004, it discovered that Saturn's rings appeared relatively bright and clean. Subsequent analysis suggested that Saturn's rings were about 100 ...

Saturn has the most spectacular ring system, with seven rings and several gaps and divisions between them. Few missions have visited Saturn: Pioneer 11 and Voyagers 1 and 2 flew by, but Cassini ...

The Cassini data has led to a new finding, published May 15 in the journal Icarus, that supports this theory of the rings appearing long after Saturn’s initial formation.

The dynamic rings around Saturn are much younger than originally thought, with new research from the University of Colorado putting their age at 400 million years compared to the planet's age of ...

Can you drink Saturn’s rings? Saturn’s rings were likely first seen by Galileo in 1610. The speed at which an object orbits a ...

Saturn’s rings are long thought to be between 100 million and 400 million years old based on more than a decade of observations by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft before its demise in 2017.

This colorful cosmic rainbow portrays a section of Saturn’s beautiful rings. The image was taken on June 30, 2004 using the Cassini spacecraft’s Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph as it entered ...