The secret has been hiding in plain view for 40 years. But it took the insight of a veteran astronomer to pull it all together within a year, using observations of Saturn from NASA’s Hubble Space ...

New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

Saturn’s Southern Hemisphere and the southern face of its rings. The telescope’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 used 30 filters to snap these images on March 7, 2003. The filters span a range of ...

Enjoy this photo of Saturn from one of the finest instruments on the planet. Or off the planet. The Hubble Space Telescope orbits 335 miles (540 km) above the Earth's surface and completes one ...

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The Hubble Space Telescope has spent more than thirty years providing some of the most incredible images of the known ...

“Full beaver supermoon” is not a combination of words that one encounters often, but this month brings the second of three consecutive supermoons. November’s moon also brings our orbital friend ...

Why it's so special: This iconic montage features images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune captured between 2014 and 2024 as part of the Hubble Space Telescope's Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy ...

Though Saturn's unusual-looking "cup handle" features were first noted by Galileo in 1610, it would be another 45 years before they were described by Christiaan Huygens as a disk surrounding Saturn.

This is a montage of NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope views of our solar system's four giant outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, each shown in enhanced color. The images were taken ...