NASA's Voyager 1 flew past Saturn in 1980 and, along with Voyager 2, which reached the planet in 1981, snapped nearly 16,000 images of Saturn, its rings and its moons.

In three months, Saturn's iconic, icy rings will appear to disappear, giving you a preview of what the planet could look like 100 million to 300 million years from now.. On March 23, an optical ...

MARTIN: Faherty says Saturn is the most distant planet that we can see with the naked eye, and its proximity to Earth is technically called Saturn in opposition.

Counting Saturn's new moons, there are 289 moons among the eight planets in the solar system and Pluto, which has five. Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet from a full-size one by the ...

Saturn will enter opposition on Sept. 7 and 8, orbiting on the opposite side of Earth as the sun. Here's everything you need to know to spot Saturn at its peak size and brightness this week.