The rings, believed to be made up of rocky and icy chunks that could be as large as a house, help separate Saturn from other ...

Saturn just solidified its title as ‘moon king’ with an updated tally of 274 satellites orbiting the gas giant. The ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

The motor was tested to 500,000 steps on Earth, which guaranteed it would operate through Voyager 2’s flyby of Saturn in August 1980. Once it has shut off, the motor will have completed more ...

Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in 2012, followed by Voyager 2 in 2018, making them the only spacecraft to operate ...

Saturn has 274 moons recognized by the International Astronomical Union. The number of moons increased substantially in March 2025 when 128 new moons were discovered by a team led by Edward Ashton ...

Voyager 2 was launched on August 20, 1977, on a trajectory toward the solar system’s gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn, and explored the icy giants Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 1 is more than 15 ...

NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched in 1977, are the longest-running missions to send data home. But as their power ...

NASA launched its twin Voyager probes in 1977 to study planets in the outskirts of our solar system including gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. Voyager 1 completed its planetary objectives and ...

The space agency said Wednesday that a sensor on Voyager 2 that analyses charged particles and cosmic rays would be turned ...