Nobody has ever landed on Saturn before. Here are some fun facts about the planet. Saturn is about 1.4402 billion km from the sun. This is one of the reasons why the planet is very cold.

To date, only four spacecraft have visited the Saturn system. From 1979 to 1981, three flybys provided tantalizing glimpses.And beginning in 2004, Cassini-Huygens was the first mission to stay a ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Planetary scientists don’t care about Mimas, Saturn’s smallest moon. Sure, its massive Herschel crater might make it look li ...