An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft first began orbiting Saturn in 2004. For the last 13 years, it has seen sights on Saturn that no other spacecraft has shown us.

On April 26, NASA flew its Cassini spacecraft closer ... When you consider that Saturn is 750 million miles away — about 9 times farther than Earth is to the Sun — these close ups are nothing ...

The Cassini probe has begun the final phase of its mission to Saturn. The satellite has executed ... Cassini will send all the data back to Earth during its next contact on Tuesday.

The American-led Cassini space mission to Saturn has just come to a spectacular end. Controllers had commanded the probe to destroy itself by plunging into the planet's atmosphere. It survived for ...

On October 25, 1671, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered a new moon at Saturn! ‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...

Titan is the only known moon with an atmosphere, and the most Earth-like place we know of ... of Titan’s surface the surface taken by Cassini’s, the researchers did not find an obvious ...

Marcia Dunn, aerospace writer, Cape Canaveral; Kathy Young, videojournalist, New York; Marshall Ritzel, motion graphics illustrator, New York, and Nicky Forster, interactive producer, New York, for a ...

Note: Since beams of light (and data transmissions) take more than an hour to reach Earth from Saturn, all times are from Cassini's vantage unless otherwise noted. What: A flyby of Titan ...

It’s a yearly moment when Saturn, Earth and the sun are in a straight line, with Earth in the middle. Our view of the ringed planets doesn't get any better than this. Here's everything you need ...

Approximately 466 million years ago, Earth might have exhibited a spectacular ring arrangement resembling Saturn’s. Recent research featured in Earth and Planetary Science Letters uncovers ...

A 6-mile-think shell of methane ice on Saturn's moon Titan could assist in the hunt for life signs arising from this moon's ...