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.

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

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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 ...

This image of the planet’s rings is color-coded ... NASA, JPL, Space Science Institute Southern Pass (2000): En route to Saturn, Cassini flew by the south pole of Jupiter, picking up a velocity ...

and Saturn itself. The image above, taken by Cassini in August, 2013, is a silhouette with the sun located behind the planet. You get a breathtaking look at the rings and their shadow across the ...

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

New Image from James Webb Space Telescope ... Scientists Compile Cassini's Unique Observations of Saturn's Rings Oct. 18, 2022 — Scientists have compiled 41 solar occultation observations ...

SINGER: Phoebe is in an unusual orbit because it goes backwards with respect to the other moons in its direction around Saturn. VERBISCER: If you look at the Cassini images of Phoebe, you see that ...

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 ...

More than 300 years later, NASA sent a spacecraft named Cassini to Saturn, and that Cassini took some pretty awesome photos of Iapetus. Realizing Iapetus kind of resembled a yin-yang, it has since ...