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

This highly enhanced color view of Saturn’s rings was assembled from multiple images taken by Voyager 2. The enhanced colors are used to illustrate possible chemical variations in the ring material.

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 ...

Linda Spilker, the Voyager mission’s project scientist, spoke to Gizmodo about the challenges that come with operating the outdated spacecraft, and passing on the knowledge of the Voyagers to the ...

Saturn's rings have disappeared from view, as seen from Earth, due to a phenomenon known as a ring plane crossing. A ring plane crossing happens every 13 to 15 years and occurs when Saturn's angle ...

Progress through the ages One of those debates that lasted for centuries revolved around Saturn ... large rings, with each of these made up of smaller rings, or ringlets. The Voyager mission ...

Jupiter, which looks serene through a telescope, was shown by Voyager to have hundreds of raging hurricanes, a glowing aurora at the north pole, and three thin rings. Saturn’s rings, previously ...

Since Voyager 1 blasted off in 1977, it has skirted past the kaleidoscopic clouds of Jupiter and the icy rings of Saturn ... A twin probe, Voyager 2, saw the same thing in 2007.

along with Voyager 2, which reached the planet in 1981, snapped nearly 16,000 images of Saturn, its rings and its moons. The two probes discovered three new moons, studied the ring system in ...