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The planet Saturn takes its name from a Roman god of agriculture. And of all the planets revolving around our sun, it’s “cultivated” — if you will — the greatest ring system by far. Beautiful rings filled with ice, dust and rock orbit its equator....

Saturn’s moon Enceladus has an even better chance of supporting extraterrestrial life than previously thought: researchers have discovered its oceans are more complex than first believed. The moon’s oceans shoot plumes of carbon dioxide into space, researchers have found, using data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft....

Saturn’s most Earth-like moon looks a bit less likely to host life, thanks to quantum mechanics, the weird rules that govern subatomic particles. Titan, the second largest moon in our solar system after Jupiter’s Ganymede, is unique in two ways that have convinced some researchers...

Of all the planets, none seem to capture our fascination like Saturn. The fascination is likely due to the enormous rings that make the second largest planet a standout in our solar system. Although­ Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune have rings of their own, none are...

There’s something curious about the icy moon of Saturn called Enceladus. Take a look at its southern hemisphere, and you’ll see wide swaths of color that’ve been given the nickname “tiger stripes.” Discovered in 2005, these four stripes are actually massive fissures in the ice...

Back in October 1997, NASA and its partners, the European Space Agency and Italian space agency Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, launched the Cassini spacecraft on a billion-mile, seven-year journey to Saturn. At the time of its launch, the schoolbus-sized vehicle set out on the most distant...

Cassini captured this beautiful backlit image of Saturn and its rings. Humanity exists at a very special time in our solar system’s history — the era of Saturn’s rings. In the next 100 million years, Saturn’s rings will completely disappear, and, as revealed by a...

NASA has announced that it will launch a space probe called Dragonfly on an ambitious mission to Saturn’s moon Titan, in which a robotic rotorcraft-lander will fly around Titan’s surface and touch down in various places. As part of its exploratory mission, the Dragonfly space...

The planet Saturn takes its name from a Roman god of agriculture. And of all the planets revolving around our sun, it’s “cultivated” — if you will — the greatest ring system by far. Beautiful rings filled with ice, dust and rock orbit its equator....

Mysterious moon Enceladus is one of the most fascinating places in our Solar System to search for life. During its mission, the international Cassini spacecraft have made many close observations of 500 km-diameter moon of Saturn – Enceladus, which is considered a potentially habitable alien...