Imagery of Saturn captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is superimposed over an image captured by Hubble. "Yellows ...

On Oct. 15, 1997, NASA launched the Cassini spacecraft on a mission to explore Saturn and its moons. It took almost 7 years ...

Cassini launched Oct. 15, 1997 on a long-term mission to Saturn and its moons. After a trio of gravity assists, two from Venus and one from Earth, Cassini went racing toward the outer solar system. It ...

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the US space agency NASA have made an unexpected discovery ...

The coming week will see the gas giant Saturn return to the Northern Hemisphere's late night sky, after spending the last few months as a "morning star" rising in the predawn and early morning hours.

Look to the eastern horizon just after sunset on Sept. 8 to see the ringed gas giant Saturn shine close to the bright disk of the waning gibbous moon. Saturn will rise less than 5 degrees to the right ...

Saturn’s iconic rings will seem to “disappear” for a couple of days starting this weekend — at least from our vantage point on Earth. The rings won’t actually vanish, but for a short time, the angle ...

This weekend will be the best opportunity of the year to spot Saturn as the ringed planet reaches opposition. Opposition occurs when a planet lines up almost directly opposite the sun from Earth's ...

On Sept. 1, 1979, NASA's robotic space probe Pioneer 11 became the first spacecraft to fly by Saturn. Pioneer 11 launched in 1973 on a mission to explore the Asteroid Belt, Jupiter and Saturn. It ...