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 ...

Hubble Space Telescope imagery of Saturn, captured from 2018-2024, has been time-lapsed. Footage courtesy: NASA, ESA, Amy ...

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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NASA is working on The Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS) system, a snake-like robot that would be used to explore the surface of Enceladus, one of Saturn's 83 moons. NASA/JPL-CalTech/SWNS NASA’s ...

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.

NASA has confirmed in a new blog post that it will be sending a nuclear-powered Dragonfly, a newly designed rotorcraft, to Saturn's moon Titan. The space agency took to its blog and explained it's ...