Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...

New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

As for Saturn, Helled claims that it's not a proper gas giant in its own right but failed to achieve that status. Growing a giant planet is a tricky business. The early solar system was a complex ...

There will be several chances to see the shadow of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, pass across the ringed planet's Earth-facing ...

Saturn's rings are mostly made up of ice, asteroids, comets and moon fragments. ... according to NASA. However, in 2025, the gas giant will tilt on-edge with Earth, ...

Saturn, a gas giant that is 4 billion years old, isn't the only planet with rings – but it does have the most spectacular and complex ones, according to NASA. In 2018, NASA said its Voyager 1 ...

On September 15, 2017, NASA’s Cassini spacecraftmade its final journey into the heart of Saturn, marking the end of an extraordinary 13-year mission dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of the gas ...

The final snap was of Saturn itself, even capturing where the spacecraft would ultimately plunge to its final destination. Explaining that impressive final photo, NASA said: "This monochrome view is ...

F rom the very beginning, JWST was shown to be a revolutionary instrument for the study of exoplanets, detecting intriguing ...

Saturn has seven distinct rings, which are comprised of ice, rocky debris and dust. NASA reports that the gas planet’s signature interstellar hula hoops are going to vanish from view in 18 ...

A natural-color view of Saturn as seen from NASA's Cassini spacecraft after more than 13 years of surveying the gas giant. Six of Saturn's moons—Enceladus, Epimetheus, Janus, Mimas, Pandora and ...

In contrast, Saturn is 9.5 astronomical units away from the sun, according to NASA. Saturn is nine times the size of Earth, with an equatorial diameter of about 74,897 miles.