Early risers will get a rare opportunity to see something extraordinary in the early hours of July 18 — the dark shadow of ...

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

Each of Saturn’s seven rings are relatively close to one another, but all orbit at different speeds around the planet. If you were observing the rings from the tops of Saturn’s clouds, they ...

But as Cassini makes each orbit around Saturn, it crosses Titan’s orbit every time. And that pushes Cassini a little bit — either closer to the rings or deeper into Saturn’s atmosphere.

"Saturn's orbit is just under 30 years, so there are two times in a Saturn orbit when that angle is just right," Dr. Schmoll says.

Saturn's rings might have formed 100 million years ago when one of its icy moons was ripped apart by the planet's gravity.

PASADENA, Calif., July 1 -- The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft hurtled through the rings of Saturn and settled into planetary orbit late Wednesday, putting a pinpoint finish to a bold 2 billion-mile ...

The engines of the Saturn V could carry a payload weighing as much as 130 tons into orbit around the Earth, according to NASA. That's about the weight of 10 school buses or an entire adult blue whale.

Saturn's rings will disappear from view of ground-based telescopes in 2025. Here's why. Every 13-15 years, Saturn is angled in a way in which the edge of its thin rings are oriented toward Earth ...

Saturn's characteristic rings are made of chunks of ice and rock, thought to have fallen into orbit around the planet after larger cosmic bodies were torn apart by Saturn's gravity.