NASA's Cassini spacecraft found icy water particles gushing from the surface at approximately 800 miles per hour (400 meters per second). The ejected material forms Saturn's E ring and scientists ...

and some during what are called “ring-plane crossings”. When the Voyager 1 spacecraft passed by Saturn, it took images that ...

and the shadow of Saturn is seen across part of the rings. Photograph by NASA/JPL/USGS NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures the shadow of Saturn's moon Mimas as it dips onto the planet's rings and ...

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Between the A and B rings lies the Cassini Division, a large empty gap. The planet’s tilt affects how the rings appear from Earth. As Saturn moves, our view of the rings changes. Sometimes they ...

Saturn is everyone’s favorite planet, it seems. Through a telescope those glorious rings make that world appear so three-dimensional that it’s not ...

The giant moon Titan in front of Saturn's edge-on rings, seen by the Cassini spacecraft in 2012. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Each of the 128 new moons are between 2 and 4 ...

Saturn's population of moons is intricately linked to its rings. Some of its moons shape the rings and are called "shepherd moons." Moons also create gaps in the rings, like the Cassini division ...

Turns out, there’s a lot more floating around the planet Saturn than those famous rings. Space scientists ... Saturn came from a NASA probe called Cassini, which spent 20 years in deep space.

Saturn surpasses Jupiter with 128 newly discovered moons, becoming the planet with the most moons in our solar system.