Moving in some high-risk pathways between Saturn and its inner rings, it successfully got closer to the planet to fulfil its ...
The rings, believed to be made up of rocky and icy chunks that could be as large as a house, help separate Saturn from other ...
Saturn has surpassed Jupiter, which has 95 known moons, with the new sightings. Uranus (28), and Neptune (16) are still ...
Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...
Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles from the Sun, at the farthest ...
Frothy and resembling an ice cream sundae — that’s how NASA described a newly-released, stunning image of a cosmic tornado ...
Using Webb’s near-infrared spectrograph, astronomers have captured new images of Neptune that finally reveal the planet’s ...
Another captivating image, taken by Cassini from a distance of 450,000 miles (725,000 kilometers), showcases Saturn’s C-ring along with portions of the B-ring. On April 25, 2016, NASA's Cassini ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully detected auroras on Neptune for the first time ever, finishing a job that ...
By Sage Rohrbach A photo of five of Saturn’s moons, captured by the Cassani spacecraft. The moons visible are Janus, Pandora, Enceladus, Rhea, and Mimas. Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science ...
Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune ... with a diameter approximately that of Saturn's moon Iapetus, or 60% that of Pluto. Haumea is a dwarf planet ...