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 planets in our solar system. They’re also about to perform a ...

Saturn has 274 moons recognized by the International ... Dione is a heavily cratered moon with a dense core. It is likely composed of silicate rock with the remainder of the moon made of ice.

This finding provides compelling evidence that the giant planets in HR 8799 formed through core accretion, a process similar ...

[Related: Saturn has a slushy core and rings that wiggle. ] Most of the newly discovered moons are located near the Mundilfari subgroup of Saturn’s moons. The team believes that given the size ...

Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...

The closest the Earth ever comes to Saturn is about 746-million miles, so it’s giant leap to even pick out a few of its moons from this distance, let alone tracking 274 separate moons in orbit ...