A new view of Saturn’s B ring shows the return of one of the planet’s most unusual features: dark, radial markings known as ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space telescope have taken a series of spectacular images featuring the fluttering auroras at the north pole of Saturn. The observations were taken in ultraviolet ...

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. July 21: Catch Titan near Saturn Let's look to Saturn this morning to catch the 10th-magnitude moon Dione skimming north of ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn’s north pole. In high-resolution pictures and video, scientists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saturn may be famous for its rings, but it has long fascinated scientists for another reason: its restless atmosphere, which is ...

Over the years, passing spacecraft have observed mystifying weather patterns at the poles of Jupiter and Saturn. The two planets host very different types of polar vortices, which are huge atmospheric ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Saturn is already visible in the post-sunset night sky, but ...

How far it is from the sun: 886 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers), on average How big it is: 72,400 miles (116,500 km) across, or almost 10 times the size of Earth. How many moons it has: At ...

Over the years, passing spacecraft have observed mystifying weather patterns at the poles of Jupiter and Saturn. The two planets host very different types of polar vortices, which are huge atmospheric ...

Young Jupiter’s powerful magnetic field may have created a safe zone where several large moons could survive. Saturn lacked ...