This highly enhanced color view of Saturn’s rings was assembled from multiple images taken by Voyager 2. The enhanced colors are used to illustrate possible chemical variations in the ring material.

But it wasn’t just the beautiful images of the photogenic ring system that surprised scientists. When Voyager 2 approached Saturn in August, it observed starlight from Delta Scorpii as the rings ...

It was 35 years ago, on Nov. 12, 1980, that NASA’s Voyager 1 got as close to ... in a cover story the following week: As more pictures came in, Saturn’s many-splendored rings began looking ...

In the Voyager days, no one spent any time trying to figure out how to make the images artful or beautiful. Phoebe, an outer moon of Saturn, was the first moon scientists encountered on the ...

Together, the Voyager missions have ventured past Jupiter, Saturn, the ice giants Neptune and Uranus, and even crossed the termination shock, into the outskirt’s of the Sun’s influence.

Forty years ago, NASA launched Voyager I and II to explore the outer solar system. The twin spacecraft both visited Jupiter and Saturn; from there Voyager I explored the hazy moon Titan ...

Saturn and the asteroid belt as a pathfinder for the Voyager missions. —Space photo of the week: Ring Nebula glistens like a jelly-filled doughnut in Webb telescope's latest images —Space ...

A photo of a mysterious feature on Saturn’s moon that has baffled scientists is now going viral. The planet is some 793 ...

we won't be getting anymore new close-up photos of Saturn and its many moons from Cassini. The mission is set to come to an end with the probe's planned death-dive into Saturn's atmosphere on Sept.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) dropped never-before-seen photos of one of Saturn's moons while ... "using images taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft nine years earlier ...

A spectacular new video combines NASA images of the ... of both Jupiter and Saturn,cosmic hurricanes that dwarf anything we experience here on Earth. The twin Voyager spacecraft launched a few ...

By Orlando Mayorquin When Voyager 1 launched in 1977, scientists hoped it could do what it was built to do and take up-close images of Jupiter and Saturn. It did that — and much more.