Discover interesting facts about Saturn, its rings and whether it could contain extraterrestrial life.

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 ...

SEE ALSO: Extraterrestrial Oceans Could Host Life A new photo taken by the Cassini spacecraft near Saturn shows Earth ... "pale blue dot" image taken by Voyager 1 in 1990. That image shows Earth ...

Titan, which is larger than Mercury and almost half the size of Earth, is surrounded by a dense gaseous atmosphere ... in Saturn’s rings). Cassini will begin to orbit Saturn on July 1 and ...

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 ...

NASA's Voyager 1 flew past Saturn in 1980 and ... and collected data about the planet's magnetic field and atmosphere. The most in-depth study of Saturn was done by the Cassini-Huygens mission ...