NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured the image, one of the first to offer a high-resolution detailed view of Saturn's north pole. Having passed through its equinox in 2009, the pole is now in sunlight.

NASA has released an amazing image of Saturn and its ghostly rings flanked by three of its fellow planets – Earth, Mars and Venus. The picture, nearly four months in the making, was taken by ...

For the past 13 years, the Cassini spacecraft has been orbiting Saturn, capturing high resolution photos of our solar system's second-biggest planet, as well as its many moons and spectacular rings.

So how many rings does Saturn have, anyway? If you can see them from your backyard, there must be a lot, right? The rings we can see in images of the planet—even high-resolution images—aren't ...