The Saturn system has always been a contender in the contest for most moons in the solar system. For a while, it was duking it out with Jupiter for the title, but after a recent trio of announcements ...

Saturn has pulled decisively ahead in the solar system’s quiet “moon race,” with astronomers now tallying a staggering 274 natural satellites circling the ringed giant. The new count, driven by the ...

Astronomers have detected a rogue planet roughly the size of Saturn wandering alone through the Milky Way. Unlike most ...

spacecraft is speeding toward the beautifully ringed planet. And this one will stay. When NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft sped past Saturn in August 1981, scientists sought answers to questions raised by ...

The complex choreography of Saturn's numerous moons displays beautiful physics, but only a few of the worlds may be friendly to life. Oceans of liquid water, deep beneath the icy crusts of three of ...

A new chronology for the moons of Saturn has been developed by Planetary Science Institute Associate Research Scientist Samuel W. Bell. “Most studies dating surfaces on the Moon or Mars rely on ...

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 ...