PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - The international Cassini spacecraft sent back a natural-color image of Saturn showing the planet's rings are shades of pink, gray and a bit of brown, scientists announced ...

The Cassini spacecraft captured this natural color view of Saturn almost a month after the planet's ... More August 2009 equinox. The shadow cast on the planet by the rings remains narrow.

It remains the least surveyed of Saturn’s main rings, though it could potentially be one of the most fascinating for study. Historical observations of Ring C have shown it to vary in color and ...

Scientists added orange color to the monochrome picture to produce the image released Friday. The picture shows Saturn’s iconic icy rings shining around the disk of the gas giant, which appears ...

The angular sizes and colors shown are accurate ... the full Moon and a typical bright star like Vega or Capella. Saturn's rings are incredibly prominent, and the only ringed system visible ...

Nine days before it entered Saturn’s orbit, Cassini captured this natural-color view of Saturn’s rings. The spacecraft was four million miles away from the planet. NASA O’Donoghue’s father ...

"Saturn is losing its rings at ‘worst-case-scenario’ rate," the agency wrote at the time. FILE - This true color picture was assembled from Voyager 2 Saturn images obtained Aug. 4 from a ...

New NASA supercomputer simulations show that Saturn's rings may have been formed by a 'massive collision' of icy moons.

Saturn’s rings and the other planets will be monitored ... Another famous seasonal change on Saturn is the color-changing hexagonal storm in the polar region, which goes from blueish to gold ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far beyond any other planet in our solar system. A natural-color view of ...