This is a simulated image of Saturn's rings based on data from Cassini. The different colors represent different particle sizes throughout the rings. Image 4 of 5 The Cassini spacecraft’s camera ...

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

and the shadow of the rings gets quite small as it crosses the equator. Saturn’s last equinox happened in 2009. The Cassini spacecraft was in orbit and took the accompanying photo. Since the sun ...

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Rings May Be Ancient After All When NASA’s Cassini spacecraft observed Saturn’s rings in 2004, scientists were baffled. The rings appeared unusually clean, despite being exposed to constant ...

SATURN'S RINGS AS THEY WOULD APPEAR TO AN OBSERVER ... which is separated by an interval of 1,450 miles known as “Cassini's division,” from the outer very bright ring, the breadth of which ...

Titan is Saturn’s largest moon, imaged here in front of its host planet and its rings by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute That soupy, orange-hued ...

“So, it seems that Martian dry-ice snow may be responsible for its ring-shaped ... plunging into Saturn’s atmosphere. Telescopes have continued to supplement Cassini’s observations.

"Rings are mostly made of ice and small rocks," said William Saunders, a planetary scientist at NASA's Langley Research ...

Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the ...