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

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered ...

The Dragonfly quadcopter will soar through Titan’s hazy skies and roam its dune seas in search of evidence that the distant ...

1, 1979. NASA's Voyager 1 flew past Saturn in 1980 and, along with Voyager 2, which reached the planet in 1981, snapped nearly 16,000 images of Saturn, its rings and its moons. The two probes ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...

It was not until 1980, when the spacecrafts Voyager I and II, and the craft Cassini, all took images of Saturn’s smallest, innermost moon. Besides their lack of color and textured appearances ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised discoveries from a team of astronomers led by Edward Ashton at the Academia ...

They reached Jupiter in 1979, taking thousands of photos that revealed ... interactions of Saturn’s many moons. There the two spacecraft parted company. Voyager One took a close look at Saturn ...