Cranch and his son, George Phillps Bond, discovered Hyperion, Saturn’s eighth moon and an inner ring called Ring C. This ...

Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...

Saturn's ring was long believed to be a continuous solid mass. Bond and Peirce regarded it as liquid, but in 1884 Pratt discovered a distinct granulation which suggested its true nature.

But later – hundreds of millions of years in the future – a permanent, virtually ringless Saturn will become real, thanks to another process called ring rain in which gravity pulls the rings apart and ...

NASA Voyager 1 probe discovers Saturn’s moon, Epimetheus. Saturn would be the last planet Voyager 1 would visit before ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

Get your binoculars out! On Saturday (Jan. 4), skywatchers in the U.K. and most of Western and Central Europe will be able to see Saturn vanish behind the crescent moon — an event known as a ...

As East Lancashire awaits the arrival of the planetary alignment, four sites in Pennine Lancashire have been identified as the best places to ...

And on top of that, Saturn now has a record that even Jupiter can't snatch up: It's the first planet to have surpassed 100 confirmed moons in total. All of the ringed planet's newly discovered ...

There's a race happening in our solar system, but it has nothing to do with gravitational mechanics or velocity. Astronomers who study the gas giant planets of Saturn and Jupiter are in a close ...