Is this the close-up of vinyl, or is it just Saturn's rings? NASA just released a stunningly crisp image of Saturn's rings on their Instagram page last Tuesday, June 15. The image was captured by the ...

How far it is from the sun: 886 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers), on average How big it is: 72,400 miles (116,500 km) across, or almost 10 times the size of Earth. How many moons it has: At ...

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope photo of Saturn reveals the planet's cloud bands and a phenomenon called ring spokes. This photo of Saturn was taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on October 22, ...

Saturn officially has 63 moons, with another 20 currently awaiting confirmation of their discovery and subsequent naming by the International Astronomical Union. The ringed planet has more moons than ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft ended its sojourn at Saturn on Sept. 15, with a plunge in the atmosphere of the ringed planet. The mission began in 1997 when Cassini was launched on a trip to Saturn to look ...

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A recent discovery by NASA has left scientists both bewildered and excited—a mysterious cube-shaped anomaly orbiting Saturn. This unexpected finding has sparked a flurry of theories and discussions ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new "spoke season" surrounding Saturn's equinox, where enigmatic features form across its rings. The spokes' origin and seasonal fluctuations remain ...

Experts have discovered that the moon is leaking heat from both of its poles, which they say indicates that Enceladus could ...

Just because a spacecraft is sent to study the moon doesn't mean it can't do a little extra skywatching now and then. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been circling the moon since 2009.

A new photo of Saturn was taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on October 22, 2023, when the ringed planet was approximately 850 million miles from Earth. Hubble's ultra-sharp vision reveals a ...