Ever wonder how NASA captures stunning images from deep space probes? Interplanetary scientist John Spencer takes us behind ...

This is where the disappearance comes in. An enhanced colour image of Saturn’?’s rings, as seen by the Voyager 2 spacecraft, August 1981. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Hulton Archive/Getty Images ...

During its Saturn flyby, Pioneer 11 provided critical data on the planet's rings, atmosphere, and magnetic environment, paving the way for the Voyager and Cassini missions ... form a tapestry of ...

Voyager 2 traveled more than 1.8 billion miles in nine years to reach Uranus. It gathered most of its data on the mysterious planet, including its rings and moons, in just six hours. The results ...

Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — using a rare alignment that only happens once every 176 years. As it zipped past these gas giants, Voyager 1 captured jaw-dropping images and gathered tons of data about ...

It has provided invaluable data, including discoveries of new moons and rings around Jupiter and Saturn ... recent communication challenge highlights the ongoing complexities faced by NASA as it ...

Voyager I and II, launched in 1977, explored Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, sending back a plethora of stunning photographs and scientific data. They discovered new moons and rings around ...

"This is analogous to how traffic jams form on a ring ... highlights how Uranus' magnetic asymmetry warps the structure of the planet's proton radiation belts, especially near the region passed by ...

The agency’s Voyager 2 space probe first imaged Saturn’s ring spokes in 1981, and the Cassini spacecraft also observed the mysterious phenomenon while studying the gas giant between 2004 and 2017.

NASA spacecraft like Pioneer 11, the Voyager probes and Cassini revealed Saturn's rings in stunning detail. Telescopes such as Hubble and JWST have imaged them as well. However, anyone with a ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The ...

Saturn's iconic rings, one of the most awe-inspiring sights in our solar system, will temporarily disappear in 2025, according to a study published in the journal Nature Astronomy. This is not the ...