One of those insights is that the area between the planet and its rings "sounds" different than other parts of space surrounding Saturn. SEE ALSO: The Cassini spacecraft dove between Saturn and ...

Cassini shot the gap and lived to tell the tale. The Saturn-exploring spacecraft managed to successfully fly through the 1,500 mile gap between Saturn and its rings and survive seemingly unscathed.

was born along with the other planets more than 4 billion years ago. Today, it is known that Saturn has seven rings composed mainly of water ice and to a lesser extent of minerals, extending more ...

Saturn has 128 more moons than astronomers previously thought - The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total of 274 moons ...

As far as planets go, they don't get much more iconic than Saturn ... Earth's tilt of 23.5 degrees. Saturn's rings are a complex mix of stripes, speckled textures and other odd features that ...

The thin, outermost ring in the photo is composed of particles shepherded by the gravity of two moons orbiting around it.

NASA research shows Saturn’s rings are vanishing permanently, with icy particles raining down into the planet’s atmosphere ... Saturn’s rings are less than a mile thick, a delicate structure ...

Saturn is tilted at 26.73 degrees on its orbit, while Earth is very close to that at a 23.5-degree tilt. When the two planets line ... because Saturn's rings are thinner than many think.