Saturn

Saturn's rings are thought to be pieces of comets, asteroids, or shattered moons that broke up before they reached the planet, torn apart by Saturn's powerful gravity.

It's hard to imagine, but Saturn is the only planet in our solar system with an average density that is less than water.

The spacecraft arrived at Saturn in 2004, and the mission ended Sept.15, 2017.

Like fellow gas giant Jupiter, Saturn is a massive ball made mostly of hydrogen and helium.

As of March 2025, Saturn had 274 confirmed moons in its orbit, far more than any other planet in our solar system

Its axis is tilted by 26.73 degrees with respect to its orbit around the Sun

One day on Saturn takes only 10.7 hours (the time it takes for Saturn to rotate or spin around once)

Saturn makes a complete orbit around the Sun (a year in Saturnian time) in about 29.4 Earth years (10,756 Earth days).

A gas giant famed for its prominent ring system of ice and rock particles, ranging from dust-sized grains to boulders.

Saturn makes a complete orbit around the Sun (a year in Saturnian time) in about 29.4 Earth years (10,756 Earth days).

Like fellow gas giant Jupiter, Saturn is a massive ball made mostly of hydrogen and helium.

It is the second least dense planet; Saturn is the least dense of all.

From the jets of water that spray from Saturn's moon Enceladus to the methane lakes on smoggy Titan

to the methane lakes on smoggy Titan

The Romans considered the god Saturnus the equivalent of the Greek god Cronus.

The Cassini spacecraft conducted extensive investigations of Enceladus

Phoebe completes a full orbit around Saturn in about 18 months, and its orbit is retrograde; that is, it orbits Saturn in the opposite direction to Saturn's orbit.

Hyperion orbits Saturn at a distance of 1.48 million kilometers, between Titan and Iapetus.

Dione is currently in a 1:2 mean-motion orbital resonance with moon Enceladus, completing one orbit of Saturn for every two orbits completed by Enceladus.