This rare space wallpaper taken on July 19 by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame. The dark side of Saturn, its bright limb, the main ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a brand-new image of giant gas planet Saturn and its incredible ring pattern. The new image, above, was take it on September 22, 2022, but only ...

In this space wallpaper, the Cassini spacecraft takes an angled view toward Saturn, showing the southern reaches of the planet with the rings on a dramatic diagonal.

The above image also gives new clarity to Saturn's rings, which NASA said are "as stunning as ever." It shows the ring system, which is largely made up of water ice, is tilted towards Earth.

In addition to being spectacularly beautiful, Saturn’s rings act as a cosmic seismograph: They keep a record of the shifts and vibrations happening deep within the giant world. These internal ...

When it was discovered in 2009, scientists knew the newest ring around Saturn was big. Now, they can say just how large. It's the biggest in the solar system. In a study Wednesday in Nature ...

Saturn’s rings are not just beautiful to look at; it turns out they are also responsible for rain falling on the planet. Using data collected from the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, scientists ...

Here's what to know about when and why Saturn's rings regularly disappear from our view, and when we'll see them again. Uranus: Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus.

Saturn’s rings, which are believed to be made of broken bits of comets, asteroids and shattered moons, extends up to 175,000 miles from the planet — but their vertical height is only about 30 ...

Saturn’s rings were first discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610, and they have continued to be an iconic part of our solar system, pulling scientist’s eyes to their beauty with ease.

The rings also formed much later than did the planet. In fact, the rings are "relatively recent," scientists said, likely forming less than 100 million years ago and perhaps only 10 million years ago.