It's 'spoke season' on Saturn when strange features appear in the planet's rings. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to ...

Of the solar system’s planets, Saturn piques the human imagination with its signature rings and impressive moon count of 274. But compelling new research reignites theories of an ancient collision ...

An artistic representation of Cassini as it prepares for its final dive. (NASA) If we could hear the cosmos, our lives might ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saturn's iconic rings may be the shattered remains of a long-lost moon — and the same catastrophic event could also explain why ...

Everyone can watch a small moon skim Saturn’s northern pole, while advanced imagers may catch its shadow on the cloud tops.

At a glance, Saturn's rings appear calm and pristine when observed from afar. These rings are quite narrow and consist mainly of water ice particles that uniformly circle Saturn in a symmetric ...

Let’s look to Saturn this morning to catch Titan, its largest and brightest moon, now close to the planet as it passes south of its parent world. Shining at mid-8th magnitude, Titan is easy to spot in ...

For much of the summer, planet watchers have had to contend with bright dawn skies and awkward viewing angles. Several ...

Now, a study led by SETI Institute scientist Matija Ćuk proposes an explanation linking the formation of the moons and rings, centering on the possibility that Titan is the product of a moon merger.

A planet nearly ten times wider than Earth sounds like the definition of solidity. Saturn certainly looks that way.