Skywatchers will get a rare chance to see Saturn in its full glory, without chunks of ice and rock swarming around it.

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

“The collision triggered the creation of nine beautiful, symmetrical rings, which are now expanding outwards, carrying gas away from the ... may grow into so-called giant low surface brightness ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter ... [Related: Saturn has a slushy core and rings that wiggle. ] Most of the newly discovered moons are located near the Mundilfari ...

Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun, is a gas giant known for its prominent ring system, composed of ice particles, and is the second-largest planet in our solar system, after Jupiter. Saturn is ...

Jupiter-like exoplanets, for instance, were initially thought to take nearly 3 to 5 million years to fully form; recent observations now suggest that for a gas giant like Jupiter, this process is ...