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

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

Scientists have known for a while that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has rivers and seas of liquid methane on its surface.

As we reach the north pole, we'll notice a slight problem with our plan to land on the surface below ... above the surface, we hit Saturn's upper atmosphere. As we plummet through the north ...

The Huygens project—named for Christiaan Huygens, the Dutch astronomer who in 1655 discovered Titan—is something of a pioneer back on Earth too. It is Europe’s farthest stab by far into the universe.

Titan’s coastlines lack river deltas, surprising scientists and raising questions about its active surface processes.

they show details of Saturn's atmosphere that aren't usually on display. Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable "No spacecraft has ever been this close to Saturn before. We could only ...

Saturn’s largest moon might not be the barren world it seems. Beneath Titan’s icy crust lies a vast ocean of liquid ...

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 ...

Mission controllers working with Cassini decided to force it to fall into Saturn's atmosphere in order to protect the planet's moons like Titan and Enceladus, which also seems to have a subsurface ...