A theory involving a "mushy zone" of ice along the moon’s fissures could explain the enormous plumes erupting from its south ...

The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...

The simple answer is that Saturn’s rings do cast shadows on the planet’s surface! NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017, took the dramatic image of the rings ...

Saturn runs rings around Jupiter Ratification of 128 new moons put the smaller gas giant way ahead on satellite count The ...

Pictures may enliven us, but other data, such as information about magnetic fields, add a huge amount to our understanding of ...

The view was acquired on Sept. 14, 2017 at 19:59 UTC (spacecraft event time). The view was taken in visible light using the ...

A rare total lunar eclipse is heading our way March 14—and if you're curious about whether your zodiac sign will feel the ...

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has long been considered ... towering plumes of water vapor erupting from the moon's frozen surface, for instance, and it was later theorized that these geysers come ...

Saturn’s moons have been the subject of a lot of astronomical attention over the years. They range in size from the ...

Meanwhile, Saturn is 9.5 astronomical units away from the sun, according to astronomers. Instead of a rocky surface like Mercury, hydrogen and helium mostly make up Saturn’s surface, with ...

Most of this debris burns up in the earth’s atmosphere when they get too close and never reach the surface. Around Saturn, astronomers expected this dark dust to be omnipresent in the rings, ...