Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn.

A new study, led by planetary scientists at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, revealed that methane gas may also be trapped ...

NASA is planning to send a drone to a nearby moon that will hunt for alien life. The Dragonfly probe will explore Titan, Saturn’s largest moon – around 745 million miles from Earth. That ...

On October 25, 1671, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered a new moon at Saturn! ‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...

which made it harder to see when the dark side was facing Earth. More than 300 years later, NASA sent a spacecraft named Cassini to Saturn, and that Cassini took some pretty awesome photos of Iapetus.

People thinks over Saturn’s awe-inspiring system of rings that enclose the gas giant to be the most fascinating and iconic ...

The ice we have here on Earth is special ... respect to the other moons in its direction around Saturn. VERBISCER: If you look at the Cassini images of Phoebe, you see that it is a pretty heavily ...

How does Saturn’s largest moon, Titan ... of which only approximately 90 have been identified via satellite imagery from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. “This was very surprising because, based on other ...

By sheer chance we may have visited the seventh planet when things weren’t normal and have misunderstood it ever since.

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

A natural color view from Cassini of Saturn with its Titan moon in the foreground in August 2012. Titan's diameter is 50% larger than Earth's moon. Credit: NASA NASA's ambitious Cassini mission to ...

or about 75% of the distance between the Earth and the Moon. NASA, JPL, Space Science Institute Southern Pass (2000): En route to Saturn, Cassini flew by the south pole of Jupiter, picking up a ...