Enjoy this photo of Saturn from one of the finest instruments on the planet. Or off the planet. The Hubble Space Telescope orbits 335 miles (540 km) above the Earth's surface and completes one ...

The secret has been hiding in plain view for 40 years. But it took the insight of a veteran astronomer to pull it all together within a year, using observations of Saturn from NASA’s Hubble Space ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is investigating something strange about the beautiful rings around Saturn. You might picture Saturn’s rings as perfectly smooth, but in fact, they have some strange dark ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observation time devoted to Saturn each year, thanks to the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program, and the dynamic gas giant planet always shows us something ...

Roughly every 378 days, Saturn swings into opposition, appearing up to 30% brighter and staying visible from dusk until dawn.

NASA released images from the Hubble Space Telescope that captured some ghostly shadows on Saturn’s rings, a phenomenon known as ring "spokes." The images were taken on Oct. 22, 2023, when Saturn was ...

New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: Space.com | Science: Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC) / Animation: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) ...

In 1984, Voyager 2 flew past Saturn, taking astonishing photographs of the gas giant in resolutions we had never seen before. As well as spotting undulations in the planet's rings – the result of a ...

(CNN) – The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a mysterious phenomenon on Saturn’s rings. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration released the photo showing ghostly shadows on the ...

Though Saturn's unusual-looking "cup handle" features were first noted by Galileo in 1610, it would be another 45 years before they were described by Christiaan Huygens as a disk surrounding Saturn.

This GIF shows a fast-paced light show on the north pole of Saturn, as captured by the European Space Agency’s Hubble Space Telescope in April and May of 2013. The ...