Right until its final moments, the spacecraft continued to send insightful images of 'The Ringed Planet.' The mission's ...

The planets of the Solar System are roughly on the same plane, but the fact that they are not exactly aligned means that ...

Saturn backlit by the Sun, taken by the Cassini spacecraft. Credit: Cassini Imaging Team / SSI / JPL / ESA / NASA All those fragments will be jostled around and gradually evolved into a debris ring ...

Studied with the naked eye since ancient times, much of what we know about the planet was given a boost by data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.For 13 years the mission provided scientists with ...

The rarest element critical to life as we know it, phosphorus, has for the first time been discovered in an ocean beyond Earth, spewed out from Saturn's icy moon Enceladus.

The Cassini data has led to a new finding, published May 15 in the journal Icarus, that supports this theory of the rings appearing long after Saturn’s initial formation.

Titan is named both for Saturn’s largest moon on which Nasa’ Cassini spacecraft discovered monumental dust storms, and for the mythological pre-olympian gods who ritualistically cover ...

Saturn’s core is a big, diffuse, rocky slushball There are still uncertainties, but data from the rings rules out a layered model. John Timmer – Aug 16, 2021 3:02 pm | 69 ...

This false-color image is a backlit view of ice geysers erupting on Enceladus, a bright moon of Saturn. Right click to download a larger version of this image. Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA ...

Here, the ringed planet shows a side never visible from Earth. Cassini took 96 backlit photos for this mosaic on April 13, 2017. Because the sun shines through the rings, the thinnest parts glow ...

100 Saturn Sunburst The Cassini spacecraft captured an extraordinary backlit image of Saturn and its gossamer rings... 99 Element 118 Debuts On the Periodic Table Chemists will soon have to make room ...

For enormous Saturn, this is a distance of 87,000 kilometers above its cloud tops and matches the location of Saturn’s outer F ring. For Earth, this distance is less than 10,000 kilometers above ...