NASA’s Cassini mission provided the world with unparalleled views of Saturn and its rings. After 13 years, its final images ...

Cassini’s flagship mission to the ringed planet Saturn ended over a year ago, but data from the craft’s Grand Finale tour of the Saturnian system continues to allow scientists to unlock the ...

As the 13-year international Cassini mission to explore Saturn draws to a close, the spacecraft has been diving between the gas giant and its innermost rings to explore uncharted territory before ...

The international Cassini spacecraft at Saturn has executed the course correction that will send it to destruction at the end of the week. The probe flew within 120,000km of the giant moon Titan ...

I t's hard to imagine Saturn without its glorious, extensive, complicated rings. Yet, when the Cassini probe arrived to study the planet in 2004, it made a curious discovery: the ice chunks and ...

Saturn surrounded by its rings appeared to ... which is separated by an interval of 1,450 miles known as “Cassini's division,” from the outer very bright ring, the breadth of which is 10,000 ...

Southwest Research Institute partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments to better ...

As it happens, it’s been summer in Saturn’s northern hemisphere since NASA’s Cassini mission—which it orbited for 13 years—ended in 2017. With its northern autumnal equinox due in 2025 ...

2024 — A new study of radar experiment data from the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn has yielded fresh insights related to the makeup and activity of the liquid hydrocarbon seas near the north ...

Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched down on Titan.

Saturn's rings, once thought young, might be as old as the planet itself, around 4.5 billion years. New research using Cassini data suggests micrometeoroid impacts vaporize, keeping the rings ...

Southwest Research Institute partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments to better ...