This composite image shows the Saturn Lyman-alpha bulge, an emission from hydrogen which is a persistent and unexpected excess detected by three distinct NASA missions, namely Voyager 1 ...

Saturn’s rings are among the most glorious, stunning, and well-studied features in the Solar System. However, their age has ...

This view of the dark Cassini Division, which separates Saturn’s outer A-ring from the inner B-ring, was taken on August 23, 1981, when Voyager 2 was about 1.7 million miles from the planet.

The original mission was meant to last four years as the probe visited Jupiter and Saturn. It’s now spent 46 years in space, making Voyager 1 and its twin Voyager 2 the longest-operating ...

The Cassini probe has begun the final phase of its mission to Saturn ... atmosphere and its rings. Monday's swing-by saw the spacecraft go closer than ever before to the cloud tops - skimming just ...

Voyager 1 visited Jupiter and Saturn and then kept on going and going. In 2012, it left our cosmic neighborhood and entered the space between stars. It was the first human-made object to leave our ...

Auroras are beautiful phenomena on Earth, but they aren't specific to this planet. In fact, they appear on many other planets ...

Voyager 1 is currently exploring interstellar space at a distance of 15.5 billion miles (24.9 billion kilometers) away from Earth. Communicating with the farthest human-made object is challenging ...

It took the 9-foot wide (2.7 meters), 700 pounds (318 kilograms) probe around 2 hours and 27 minutes to descend through the atmosphere of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn and the second-largest ...

Launched 40 years ago, the Voyager space probes are on a grand tour of the cosmos that nearly ended at Saturn. Launched in August and September 1977, NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft have opened ...

Saturn comes second to Jupiter in ... of Titan’s surface during the Pioneer 11 and Voyager flybys. Only when Cassini probed the atmosphere with radar in 2004 did scientists discover an eerily ...