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.

A stunning new photo captures the moon and Saturn engaged in a cosmic game of peek-a-boo. On Jan. 4, Saturn briefly hid behind the crescent moon, escaping the view of skywatchers in Europe ...

NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system.

An curved arrow pointing right. At just 240,000 miles from Saturn's north pole, NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped some stunning photos. These are the first images of the spacecraft's new mission ...

These baffling, dark structures were first photographed above the rings by the Voyager 1 probe in 1981, with the Cassini probe also noticing them later. Hubble Telescope captures images of Saturn ...

Voyager 1 discovers tiny moon at Saturn. The Dodgers keep adding to their payroll. The two-year-old company raised its ...

(Photo by Jane Barlow/PA Images via ... Onlookers saw not only the full moon, but also a bright light close to its disk. Saturn, the “ringed planet,” is just past its bright opposition ...

Saturn comes second to Jupiter in many respects ... Kevin Baines, a NASA planetary scientist, remembers seeing the Voyager probe’s images of Enceladus in the 1980s. The blinding ball of ...

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On this date, Jan. 26, 1981, NASA Voyager 1 probe discovers Saturn’s moon, Epimetheus. Saturn would be the last planet Voyager 1 would visit before beginning its ongoing journey out of the solar ...