The Cassini orbiter, a collaborative mission by NASA, ESA, and ASI, provided us with a stunning legacy of Saturn and its intricate system of rings and moons.

From nebulas and black holes to baby star nurseries and ancient collisions, the universe has never looked more beautiful ...

with long shadows cast by the planet's rings. Michael Benson created the image using data returned by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2005. Saturn usually appears golden in images, as its thick clouds ...

The resulting images are therefore overlaid onto an image of Saturn in visible light taken ... of a program of observations of all four giant planets. “If we can get so many new findings from ...

Pocock, who has worked on the JWST, catalogues the science behind its most stunning images in her new book, Webb's Universe. Here's her pick of the telescope’s best shots ...

Saturn comes second to Jupiter in many respects ... Kevin Baines, a NASA planetary scientist, remembers seeing the Voyager ...

"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.

Astrology suggests that retrograde periods, despite being optical illusions, encourage introspection and reevaluation.

From the edge of space, the Sahara Desert looks like it belongs more on the planet Mars than Earth, with the red-tinged dune ...

Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today.

CRAIG TAYLOR/Getty Images A Geminids meteor shower composite photo that includes ... Watch for not one but three meteor ...

Voyager 1 switched to a very old backup radio transmitter, not used since 1981, restoring NASA’s contact amid communication ...