Note: images online at http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2002/phot-04-02.html With its new NAOS-CONICA Adaptive Optics facility, the ESO Very Large Telescope ...

Netherlands-based director Sander van den Berg has taken images from NASA's Cassini orbiter and Voyager spacecraft to create an amazing new video of Saturn entitled "Outer Space." At first, the ...

The Cassini spacecraft looks toward the Rhea's cratered, icy landscape with the dark line of Saturn's ringplane and the planet's murky atmosphere as a background. Rhea is Saturn's second-largest moon, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Infrared-light images of Titan taken by the James Webb Space Telescope in July 2023 showing ...

A breathtaking image of Saturn has gone viral on TikTok, presented as the final photo taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft before its dramatic plunge into the planet in 2017. But while the image may be ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this image of Saturn on ...

PASADENA - The first spacecraft to orbit Saturn, arriving late Wednesday, swiftly turned its cameras on the planet's rings of ice and rock and transmitted striking pictures of the encircling luminous ...

The image also has a retro appearance, almost as if we're looking at it on an analog TV. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. At first ...

Titan, the largest moon of Saturn was discovered by Dutch astronomer Christian Huygens in 1655 and certainly deserves its name. With a diameter of no less than 5,150 km, it is larger than Mercury and ...

Saturn is a lot like Santa: They’ll both deliver an exciting gift during a special season, but their logistics are a puzzle. More than four decades ago, astronomers beheld the first photos of Saturn.

A blurry photo posted online in April 2024 shows a celestial body that looks like Earth but is actually Saturn's largest moon, Titan. A blurry image of a round, celestial object similar in appearance ...

NASA released new images of Saturn's rings showing "unprecedented detail." The images were captured by the Cassini spacecraft while it made ring-grazing orbits around the planet. The orbits began on ...