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It's hard to imagine Saturn without its glorious, extensive, complicated rings. Yet, when the Cassini probe arrived to study the planet in 2004, it made a curious discovery: the ice chunks and ...

Saturn has just pulled far ahead in the solar system’s moon race, with a fresh wave of detections pushing its tally to 274 ...

The two biggest planets in our Solar System in one telescope view. And catastrophe is imminent. If Jupiter and Saturn ...

Saturn's moon, Iapetus, imaged by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in September 2007. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) We recently explored Saturn’s moon, Pan, and its unique, food-like ...

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 ...

Saturn has overtaken Jupiter as the planet with the most known moons in the solar system. Astronomers have announced a bumper crop of 62 new moons orbiting the ringed planet, pushing its total to well ...

Labroots recently explored the reflective and beautiful atmosphere of Venus that envelopes its hot and high-pressured surface. Here we will explore one of the most recognizable objects in our solar ...

Did a massive ice giant planet once orbit in the outer solar system? And what could evidence for such a world teach us about the original positions of Jupiter and Saturn? The ancient Solar System was ...

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If star-hopping aliens ever visited our solar system, Saturn is probably the planet they'd remember. The seven giant rings circling its equator make Saturn the most distinct planet orbiting the sun.