Saturn's famous rings are about to disappear. No, not literally – that isn't projected to happen for hundreds of millions of years. But for astronomers and stargazers using ground-based ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

Not that it was a competition, but Saturn surpassed Jupiter in known moons a few years ago. Now the giant planet may never ...

Saturn has 274 moons recognized by the International ... and Douglas Currie using a ground-based telescope. Dione: Discovered on March 21, 1684, by Giovanni Cassini. Eggther: Discovered on ...

Researchers have proposed that Earth may have had a ring system 466 million years ago, during a period of intense meteorite bombardment known as the Ordovician impact spike. This finding ...

Since we can't yet build The Ark's interstellar spacecraft and go visit the Saturn system ourselves, these moons were identified using ground-based telescopes right here on Earth. The moons were ...

Saturn on that night will be difficult ... Sometimes it is so bright, it can cast shadows on the ground. Next, is Uranus. It floats in the sky just below the ability of most people to see with ...

Cassini reveals Saturn's secrets For the last 13 years, the Cassini Orbiter has been sending ground-breaking scientific data back to Earth. Transforming our understanding of Saturn, its rings and ...

Saturn, too tiny to make out, lies at the center of a swarm of 274 moons shown her at their correct relative distances from the planet. The blue and red arcs represent the moons' orbits.