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 ...

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 ...

Saturn’s iconic rings will seemingly vanish from view on Sunday, March 23. The gas giant’s rings have been gradually tilting edge-on, as seen from Earth, for the past seven years, and this weekend, ...

Saturn will appear alongside the moon in Nevada skies during a planetary conjunction this January. Here’s how to spot it and ...

When you swing a telescope toward Saturn, center it and place your eye to the eyepiece, something magical will happen. There Saturn will sit among the blackness of space, a tiny cartoon world ...

University of Birmingham provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Saturn’s rings are one of the jewels of the solar system, but it seems that their time is short and their ...

Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun – The Ringed Planet. Curious, young sky watchers often ask, “What’s the planet with the rings?” These rings are Saturn's identity, and those very rings that ...