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.

It is one of only four "terrestrial" planets or moons—those with solid bodies, as opposed to those made largely of gas, like Jupiter and Saturn—that has a substantial atmosphere. The other ...

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 ...

with the top results being the Voyager "Grand Tour" program of the 1970s and 1980s; the Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn and its moon Titan; Mars Science Laboratory (the Curiosity and ...

Voyager 1 detected a small ring around Jupiter and many of Saturn's moons during its flybys. Voyager 2 remains the only spacecraft to have visited Uranus and Neptune, providing data about these ...