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

The first of the probe's final five orbits took ... clouds and hazes in its atmosphere — that Cassini has revealed. Gravity from Titan, Saturn's planet-sized moon, plays a key role in Cassini's ...

The Cassini orbiter, a collaborative mission by NASA, ESA, and ASI, provided us with a stunning legacy of Saturn and its intricate system of rings and moons.

On04, NASA's Cassini spacecraft took the first close-up images of Saturn's largest moon Titan. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...

Cassini will be destroyed in Saturn's clouds around 6:32 a.m. EDT on Friday. The end is nigh for Cassini, a spacecraft that launched in 1997 and has explored Saturn and its moons for 13 years.

Feb. 7, 2024 — Saturn's moon Mimas harbors a global ocean beneath its icy shell, discovered through analysis of its orbit by Cassini spacecraft data. This ocean formed just 5-15 million years ...

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 ...

NASA is planning to send a drone to a nearby moon that will hunt for alien life. The Dragonfly probe will explore Titan, Saturn’s largest moon – around 745 million miles from Earth. That ...

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

Michael Benson created the image using data returned by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2005. Saturn usually appears golden in images, as its thick clouds are predominantly yellow. So scientists were ...

As it happens, it’s been summer in Saturn’s northern hemisphere since NASA’s Cassini mission—which ... that were inaccessible to any previous spacecraft, producing an exquisite dataset ...

A combined mission to explore Saturn’s moons Titan and Enceladus would be a good place to start. The last signals from Cassini space probe before it burns up in Saturn’s atmosphere will ...