New images beamed back from the Cassini spacecraft show Saturn's distinctive rings in unprecedented detail. While the rings, as a whole, look like perfectly smooth disks from a distance ...

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is the only body beyond Earth known to host stable bodies of liquid on its surface. | Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/University of Idaho Scientists have known ...

On April 26, NASA's Cassini spacecraft shot between Saturn and its innermost ring, going where no human-made object has gone before. Cassini has already made some new discoveries thanks to its ...

Saturn’s largest moon might not be the barren world it seems. Beneath Titan’s icy crust lies a vast ocean of liquid water—possibly as deep as 300 miles. While its surface hosts lakes of ...

Both planets are above the horizon by 5 a.m. local daylight time. Saturn shines at magnitude 1.2 and its rings are close to edge-on. Venus exhibits a 30-percent-lit crescent spanning 36″.

Sunrise: 5:57 A.M. Sunset: 7:57 P.M. Moonrise: 11:11 A.M. Moonset: 1:47 A.M. Moon Phase: Waxing crescent (41%) This dramatic image of the ring shadows on Saturn was taken by Cassini July 16 ...

Some of Saturn’s other moons were discovered by space voyages, and some during what are called “ring-plane crossings”. When the Voyager 1 spacecraft passed by Saturn, it took images that ...

TEMPO.CO, Bandung - The planet Saturn has recently gained an additional 128 natural satellites. The Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) noted that Saturn now has a total ...