Our universe just got a lot weirder. From planets with rings larger than the Sun to alien worlds where it rains molten iron or glows magenta, NASA’s latest exoplanet discoveries are challenging ...

Astronomers investigate a potential impact on Saturn after a bright flash was caught on camera. NASA image may show first ...

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 ...

Unlike rocky planets where asteroid impacts leave visible craters, gas giants like Saturn have outer layers of hydrogen and ...

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 ...

Saturn’s rings photographed by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 28, 2016. Cassini-Huygens / NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute. In addition to being a quirky product of geometry, ...

In 2013 scientists studying data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft—which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017—read the seismic signatures in the rings and used them to peer inside the planet.

With its iconic rings, you can pick Saturn out in an instant, but if NASA scientists are right, we might actually be watching the planet’s most eye-catching feature disappearing right in front ...

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

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 ...

This Jan. 2, 2010 image made available by NASA shows the planet Saturn, as seen from the Cassini spacecraft. On Monday, new research suggested that Saturn’s rings may be older than they look ...

Saturn's rings are long thought to be between 100 million and 400 million years old based on more than a decade of observations by NASA's Cassini spacecraft before its demise in 2017.